Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan
The Organization of the Toilers of Kurdistan[1] (Kurdish: کۆمهڵهی زهحمهتکیشانی کوردستان, Persian: کومله زحمتکشان کردستان), also known as the Komala – Reform Faction,[2] is an armed communist and separatist ethnic party of Kurds in Iran, currently exiled in northern Iraq.
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| Leader | Omar Ilkhanizade |
| Founded | October 2007 |
| Split from | Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan |
| Headquarters | Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
| International affiliation | Socialist International (Observer) |
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It split from the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan in October 2007 over internal disagreements[2] and is led by Omar Ilkhanizade.[1][2]
The group operates a television network named ASOsat.[3]
History
See also
- Komala Society of Revolutionary Toilers of Iranian Kurdistan (1969/1979–1984)
- Komala Kurdistan's Organization of the Communist Party of Iran (1984–present)
- Socialist Faction of Komala (2009–2015)
- Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan (2000–present)
- Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan (2007–present)
- Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan – Reunification Faction (2008–2014)
- Komala Kurdistan's Organization of the Communist Party of Iran (1984–present)
References
- Romano, David; Gurses, Mehmet (2014), Conflict, Democratization, and the Kurds in the Middle East: Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria (1st ed.), Springer, p. 75, doi:10.1057/9781137409997_4, ISBN 978-1-137-40999-7
- Ahmadzadeh, Hashem; Stansfield, Gareth (2010), "The Political, Cultural, and Military Re-Awakening of the Kurdish Nationalist Movement in Iran", Middle East Journal, 64 (1): 11–27, JSTOR 20622980
- "Report on Joint Finnish-Swiss Fact-Finding Mission to Amman and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) Area, May 10-22, 2011" (PDF), Finnish Immigration Service, Federal Office for Migration (Switzerland), 1 February 2012, 1170945 – via Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD)
- "Iran's Kurdish Opposition Considers Negotiations", Associated Press, 18 July 2019
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