Democratic National Union of Kurdistan or Kurdistan National Democratic Union (

Kurdish Kurdish may refer to: *Kurds or Kurdish people *Kurdish languages *Kurdish alphabets *Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes: **Southern Kurdistan **Eastern Kurdistan **Northern Kurdistan **Western Kurdistan See also * Kurd (dis ...

: ''Yekitiya Netewayî Demokratî Kurdistan'') (YNDK) is a political party that is based in

South Kurdistan Iraqi Kurdistan or Southern Kurdistan ( ku, باشووری کوردستان, Başûrê Kurdistanê) refers to the Kurdish-populated part of northern Iraq. It is considered one of the four parts of "Kurdistan" in Western Asia, which also incl ...

. Its main goal is to establish independence for the greater

Kurdistan Kurdistan ( ku, کوردستان ,Kurdistan ; lit. "land of the Kurds") or Greater Kurdistan is a roughly defined geo-cultural territory in Western Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, languages ...

. It was founded in 1996 by Ghafur Makhmuri. The party was part of the

Kurdistani List The Kurdistan List ( ku, ليست كوردستان Lîstî Kurdistani), also known as the Kurdistan Alliance or the Brotherhood List, is the name of the electoral coalition that ran in the Kurdistan Regional Government parliamentary elections in ...

in the 2005 elections and received 1 seat in the Kurdistani parliament.

External links

YNDK Official site
{{Kurdish nationalist organisations Kurdish nationalism in Iraq Kurdish organisations Regionalist parties Kurdish nationalist political parties Kurdish political parties in Iraq Political parties in Kurdistan Region