The Kurdistan Laborers' Party (, abbreviated as PRK) is a political party in

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that was founded in 1995 as Kurdistan Workers' and Laborers' Party (). The name and logo change happened some point after June 2021, but it still regularly being referred to with the old name. The party's secretary is Bapîr Kamela. In 2017, the party merged with another small party called ''Kurdistan Masses Movement'' (), but the name Kurdistan Workers' and Laborers' Party and the leadership of Kamela was kept. On 7 October 2023, party leader Bapîr Kamela was part of a delegation from

visiting

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. For the

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, the party joined an electoral alliance together with the

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and the

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. The alliance is called Serdem Coalition.

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