Kurdistan Toilers' Party ( ku, Parti Zahmatkeshan Kurdistan) founded according to the party in 1985, is a splinter from the
Kurdistan Socialist Party
Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party ( ku, Parti Sosyalisti Demokrati Kurdistan; ar-at, الحزب الاشتراكي الديمقراطي الكردستاني, Hizb al-Ishtiraki al-Dimuqrati al-Kurdistani) is a political party in Kurdistan Regio ...
, and later a member of the
Iraqi Kurdistan Front. Led by
Khalid Zangana, now it is led by
Qadir Aziz.
It publishes the newspaper ''
Alay Azadi'' (Banner of Freedom) in
Sulaymaniyya. A few cultural and ideological periodicals (''Pesh Kawtin'' and ''Nojan'') are also reportedly published and television and radio programmes put out on its own broadcasting stations. It was included in the
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan-dominated government. It has poor relations with the
Kurdistan Democratic Party and has no offices in Kurdistan Democratic Party territory.
Currently it has one seat in Kurdistan parliament and one minister in the Kurdistan Regional Government.
Kurdistan Toilers' Party is part of the Kurdistan Alliance Bloc ("Hawpeymanî Kurdistan", no. 372) to the
Iraqi Parliament
The Council of Representatives ( ar, مجلس النواب, Majlis an-Nuwwāb al-ʿIrāqiyy; ku, ئهنجومهنی نوێنهران, ''Enjumen-e Nûnerên''), usually referred to simply as the Parliament is the unicameral legislature o ...
. The first listed candidate for
Silêmanî Governorate for the party was
Jalal Dabagh, a prominent Kurdish politician.
The leader of Kurdistan Toilers Party is
Balen Abdullah.
See also
*
Jalal Dabagh
References
1985 establishments in Iraq
Kurdish nationalism in Iraq
Kurdish nationalist political parties
Kurdish political parties in Iraq
Left-wing nationalist parties
Political parties established in 1985
Political parties in Kurdistan Region
Socialist parties in Iraq
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