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18-680: 1979-1985, it was part of the short-lived alliance Kurdistan United Socialist Party (HSYK), which had included the Socialist Movement of Kurdistan as well as the two splinters of the South Kurdistan Movement and which birthed the Kurdistan Toilers' Party . The KSDP component in the alliance was split into two camps, the scientific socialist faction around Resul Mamend and the social democratic faction around Saleh Yousefi and Mahmoud Othman . Prior to

36-509: A recent name change, although the acronym KSDP stayed the same. After 1992, the party was led by Mahmoud Othman . The party is currently led by Mohammed Haji Mahmoud . In the 2013 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election the party got 12,501 votes (0.6%) and it won one seat in the Kurdistan National Assembly . For the 2024 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election , the party joined an electoral alliance together with

54-759: The 1992 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election , it created an electoral alliance with the Kurdish Socialist Party (PASOK). In August, the Kurdistan Popular Democratic Party joined the alliance, and the three founded the Kurdistan Unity Party (KUP). A faction led by Resul Mamend refused to join the alliance and instead joined the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in December 1992, where Mamend

72-710: The Kurdistan Communist Party – Iraq and the Kurdistan Toilers' Party . The alliance is called the Kurdistan Region Coalition. The Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party also has a paramilitary wing of Peshmerga soldiers under the direct command of party leader Mohammed Haji Mahmoud , whose nom de guerre is "Kaka Hama". The party's forces have fought in the Iraqi Civil War against the Islamic State of Iraq and

90-634: The Kurdistan Future Party , also known as Hizbî Ayînde , before joining the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in 15 July 2016. The general secretary of the Kurdistan Toilers' Party now is Belên Ebdulla. The party published the newspaper Alayî Azadî or "Banner of Freedom" from 1986 onwards, which has been discontinued later. It also published the theoretical periodical Pêşkewtîn , meaning "Progress" in English, in 1986, which

108-641: The "Minister of Martyrs and Anfal ". He lost some influence in the party after a party congress in March 2023, where Mohammed's son Rêbîn replaced him in the office for public relations and replaced a lot of the staff with associates of him. In late January 2024, the rivalry reemerged over a dispute whose son would become president of the Baxtiyarî Sports Club in Silêmanî . The situation escalated and shots were exchanged. On February 14, Selah Elî, who

126-653: The KSDP, including his brother, and that the group fired at his house with RPGs. During the clashes, Ebdulla's son was reportedly wounded. Also, a guard of the party leader Mohammed was killed. After the clashes, security forces were deployed to the village to control the situation. This article about an Iraqi political party or organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kurdistan Toilers%27 Party The Kurdistan Toilers' Party ( Kurdish : حزبی زەحمەتکێشانی کوردستان , romanized :  Hizbî Zehmetkêşanî Kurdistan , also known as Zahmatkeshan)

144-927: The Left of Kurdistan , alongside the Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq and the Movement of the Democratic People of Kurdistan . Said committee released a statement in August 2022, calling on the elimination of "absolute centralism" in Iraq, as well as the adoption of a separate constitution for the Kurdistan Region and the elections for the Kurdistan Region Parliament and the regional councils to be held on time. Furthermore,

162-507: The Levant (ISIL), mostly in the region south of Kirkuk . They also took part in the Mosul offensive (2016) . Among the party fighters killed in combat against ISIL was Mohammed Haji Mahmood's son Atta. There has been a developing rivalry between party leader Mohammed Haji Mahmoud and his brother Ebdulla Haji Mahmoud. Ebdulla was first a MP in the Kurdistan Region Parliament and is currently

180-620: The Toilers' Party. Following the 1992 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election however, Mala Bakhtiyar and most of the former Alayî Şoriş leadership left the party and rejoined the PUK. Over the last decades, the party has abandoned socialist rhetoric and became more moderate. The former leader Qadir Ezîz left the party in October 2009 after losing an internal power struggle with the wing led by Belên Ebdulla and Se'id Xalîdewe. He proceeded to found

198-511: The party was known as Kurdistan Socialist Party - Revolutionary Democratic Direction ( Kurdish : حزبی سۆسیالیستی کوردستان- ئیتجاهی دیموکراتی شۆڕشگێڕ ), before being renamed to Kurdistan Toilers' Party. In the year 1990, it became a member of the Iraqi Kurdistan Front . The same year, Mala Bakhtiyar's party Alayî Şoriş (Banner of Revolution), which had split from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan four years prior, merged into

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216-410: The party. Ebdulla rejected the decision, arguing that only a proper party congress could make such a decision. According to the news network Peregraf, the conflict between the brothers had been going on for two years. On April 4, the house of Ebdulla Haji Mahmoud's son in the village of Gulxane northwest of Halabja was attacked by an armed group. Ebdulla claimed that the group was made up of members of

234-495: The statement calls on the government to stop further privatizations, to provide the salaries of public servants on time and to adopt reforms that improve the economic and social development of the people of Kurdistan. In 2013, it gained one seat in the Kurdistan Region Parliament and one minister in the Kurdistan Regional Government. In 2018, it failed to win a seat again. Kurdistan Toilers' Party

252-414: Was a close associate of Ebdulla was replaced with Husên Xelîfe as leader of Peshmerga affairs, an associate of Mohammed. During the tensions, Elîs son reportedly opened fire, which led security forces to intervene. On the 5th of March, an assembly led by Mohammed Haji Mahmoud decided to strip Ebdulla of the seat of the co-chair as well of his party membership, calling on him to give back properties owned by

270-495: Was cancelled after five issues. . In 2003, it also had a TV station called "Voice of Kurdistan Toilers". It was included in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan -dominated government. It had poor relations with the Kurdistan Democratic Party , but the party's headquarters were transferred to KDP-controlled Erbil under the leadership of Ebdulla. The party is part of the so-called Joint Working Committee of

288-544: Was founded in 1985 by Qadir Ezîz and Ebdulxaliq Zengene as a splinter of the short-lived alliance Kurdistan United Socialist Party (HSYK), which had included the Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party , the Socialist Movement of Kurdistan and the two splinters of the South Kurdistan Movement . They had belonged to the left wing of the party and had criticized the leadership for abandoning socialism in favor of tribal democracy. 1985-1986,

306-754: Was included as member of the Political Bureau. The KUP joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party in August 1993. A mere month later, a faction under Mohammed Haji Mahmoud broke away from the KDP again, re-establishing the KSP-I. The following year, it was renamed to Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party ( Kurdish : حزبی سۆسیالیست دیموکراتی کوردستان , romanized :  Hizbî Sosyalîst Dîmukratî Kurdistan ; Arabic : الحزب الاشتراكي الديمقراطي الكردستاني , romanized :  Hizb al-Ishtiraki al-Dimuqrati al-Kurdistani ). It had been known under this name until

324-541: Was part of the Kurdistan Alliance Bloc ("Hawpeymanî Kurdistan", no. 372) that existed in the Iraqi Parliament 2005-2010. The first listed candidate for Silêmanî Governorate for the party was Jalal Dabagh , a prominent Kurdish politician. For the 2024 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election , the party joined an electoral alliance together with the Kurdistan Communist Party – Iraq and

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