List of Kurdish organisations
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Europe
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- Kurdish Artist Rights
- Kurdish Cultural Centre (KCC)
- Western Kurdistan Association (WKA)
- Kurdish Community Centre (KCC)
- Kurdish Housing Association (KHA)
- Gulan
- Kurdish Advice Centre (KAC)
- Kurdish Exile Association (KEA)
- Kurdish and Turkish Refugee Workers Cultural Association (GIK-DER)
- Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP)
- Greenwich Kurdish Community Centre (GKCC)
- Kurdish Association
- Turkish and Kurdish Community Centre (DAY-MER)
- Kurdish Medical Association (KUMA)
- Kurdish Studies and Student Organisation (KSSO)
- Support Committee for Higher Education in Kurdistan (SCHEIK)
- Kurdish Medical and Scientific Federation (KMSF)
- Kurdish Women's Rights Watch (KWRW)
- Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO)
- Kurdish & Middle East Women’s Organisation (KMEWO)
- ROJ Women's Association
- Kurdish & Turkish Womens Group (IMECE)
- Kurdish Professional Network (KPN)
- London Kurdish Film Festival (LKFF)
- Manchester Kurdish Film Festival (MKFF)
- Croydon Kurdish Association
- The Kurdish Centre, Croydon
- The Kurdish Art Centre
- Kurdish PENKurdish PENKurdish PEN or The Kurdish Centre of the International PEN is a branch of International PEN. It was suggested by Kurdish writer Hüseyin Erdem and voted into existence during International PEN's conference in Cambridge in 1988...
- Derby Kurdish Community Association
- Glasgow Kurdish Community
- LeedsKurdish Community
- Kurdish Disability Organisation (KDO)
- Kurdish Forum, Huddersfield
- Kurdish Association Centre in Greater Manchester
- Peace MothersPeace MothersThe Peace Mothers is a women's civil rights movement in Turkey, which aims to promote peace between Turkey's different ethnic groups through non-violent means.The Peace Mothers dates from 1999...
Sweden
- Kurdish Youth Association in Sweden
- Kurdistan Women Union in Sweden
- Federation of Kurdistani Associations in Sweden
- Kurdish Children's Rights Organisation (KOMAK)
- The Kurdish Library
- Kurdish Student's Academic Association (KSAF)
- Welatparêzên Kurdistanê (WeKurd)
- Kurdish Institute of Stockholm
France
- Kurdish Institute of ParisKurdish Institute of ParisKurdish Institute of Paris , founded in February 1983, is an organization focused on Kurdish language and culture. It is one of the main Kurdish academic centers in Europe...
Belgium
- Kurdish Institute of Brussels
Germany
- Kurdish Institute of Berlin
Netherlands
- Kurdish Students Association The Netherlands (KSVN)
United States
- American Kurdish Council (AKC)
- Bay Area Kurdish Youth Organization (BAKYO)
- Kurdish American Student Organization (KASO)
- Kurdish American Youth Organization (KAYO)
- Kurdish Human Rights Watch (KHRW)
- Kurdish National Congress (KNC)
- Kurdish Student Association (KSA)
- Kurdish Youth Festival (KYF)
- Kurdish Youth Club (KYC)
- Kurdish Youth of America (KYA)
- Kurdistan Student Organization (KSO)
- Tennessee Kurdish Community Council (TKCC)
- Washington Kurdish Institute (WKI)
Iraq
- Action Party for the Independence of KurdistanAction Party for the Independence of KurdistanThe Action Party for the Independence of Kurdistan is a political party in Iraqi Kurdistan. It is part of the Kurdistan Regional Government.The Party broke from the Iraqi Communist Party and affiliated to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. Its leader, Mohammed Hussein Halleq, was murdered in 1995...
- Ansar al-IslamAnsar al-IslamAnsar al-Islam is a Sunni Islamist group of Iraqis, promoting a radical interpretation of Islam, close to the official Saudi ideology of Wahhabism with strict application of Sharia. The group was formed in the northern provinces of Iraq near the Iranian border, and previously had established...
- Jund al-Islam
- Islamic Unity-Front
- Kurd HamasKurd HamasThe Kurd, Islamic Hamas was founded in Germian, a city in north Iraq. The Kurd Hamas split from the Islamic Movement of Kurdistan in 1997. They protested against the agreement between the Islamic Movement and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan....
- Tawhid
- Soran Unit
- Democratic Patriotic Alliance of KurdistanDemocratic Patriotic Alliance of KurdistanThe Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan sometimes referred to simply as the Kurdistan Alliance is the name of the electoral coalition first presented as a united Kurdish list in the January 2005 election in Iraq. Elections were held simultaneously for the assembly of the Kurdistan Regional...
- Democratic National Union of Kurdistan (YNDK)
- Islamic Fayli Grouping in IraqIslamic Fayli Grouping in IraqThe Islamic Fayli Grouping in Iraq or Iraqi Faili Islamic Gathering is one of two Iraqi political parties of Shi'a Fayli Kurds, the other being the Fayli Kurd Islamic Union...
- Islamic Group KurdistanIslamic Group KurdistanIslamic Group of Kurdistan/Irak is an Islamist movement in Iraqi Kurdistan. It practices the method of “ Sunnah and Jamaa’h” Established by Ali Bapir in May 2001. Bapir is a former member of the Islamic Movement of Kurdistan...
- Islamic Kurdish Society
- Islamic Movement of KurdistanIslamic Movement of KurdistanThe Islamic Movement of Kurdistan is an Islamist group founded in 1979 by Shaykh Uthman Abd-Aziz and several other Sunni mullahs who were all part of the non-political "Union of Religious Scholars" . The party's main support comes from in and around that town of Halabjah...
- Islamic Unity Movement of Kurdistan
- Kurdistan Islamic National Movement
- Al-Nahda
- Islamic Kurdish LeagueIslamic Kurdish LeagueIslamic Kurdish League is a Kurdish Islamic Sunni political party, in Iraqi Kurdistan...
- Islamic Union for the Philean Kurds
- Iraqi Kurdistan Front
- Kurdistan Salvation Party
- Kurdish Revolutionary HezbollahKurdish Revolutionary HezbollahThe Kurdish Revolutionary Hezbollah is a splinter group of the Kurdish Hezbollah and Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. The Kurdish Revolutionary Hezbollah established 1988 in South Kurdistan under the leadership of Adham Barzani, a cousin of Massoud Barzani.- References :* at...
- Kurdish Tribal AssociationKurdish Tribal AssociationKurdish Tribal Association is a Kurdish tribal grouping , established 1991 in Iraqi Kurdistan....
- Kurdistan Communist PartyKurdistan Communist PartyThe Kurdistan Communist Party/Iraq is a Kurdish political party, formed in 1993 when the Iraqi Communist Party branch in the Kurdish areas was formed into a separate party. The party is led by Kamal Shakir....
- Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)
- Kurdistan Islamic UnionKurdistan Islamic UnionKurdistan Islamic Union is an Islamist party in Iraqi Kurdistan is in principle independent and is directly responsible for policy matters. The party has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.-Events:...
- Kurdistan Toilers’ Party
- Kurdish Socialist PartyKurdish Socialist PartyKurdistan Socialist Democratic Party is a political party in Iraq that currently has 2 seats in the Kurdistan National Assembly-References:*...
- Kurdistan Conservative PartyKurdistan Conservative PartyThe Kurdistan Conservative Party is led by Zaid Surchi and Zainab bin Khalil. The List represents tribal leaders and is dominated by the Surchi family. In 1996 KDP forces clashed with fighters from the Surchi family's home villages, killing Hussein Surchi, Zaid's uncle. The PUK supported the...
- Kurdistan National Democratic Union
- Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party
- Kurdistan Revolutionary PartyKurdistan Revolutionary PartyKurdish Revolutionary Party was a political party in Iraq. Originally formed in 1964, it merged into Kurdish Democratic Party in 1970. The party was revived by a group of anti-Barzani dissidents in the KDP leadership in 1974. The refounded Kurdish Revolutionary Party joined the National...
- Kurdistan Democratic Movement
- Kurdistan Liberation Party
- Kurdistan National Liberation Party
- Kurdistan Freedom Party
- Kurdish Socialist Party of Iraq
- Kurdistan Democratic National Party
- National Kurdish League
- Patriotic Union of KurdistanPatriotic Union of KurdistanThe Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is a Kurdish political party in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded on June 1, 1975, by coordinations between Jalal Talabani and Nawshirwan Mustafa...
(PUK) - Unity Party of Kurdistan
- Fayli Kurd Islamic Union
- Yazidi Movement for Reform and ProgressYazidi Movement for Reform and ProgressThe Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress is a Yezidi political party in Iraq. The party represents Yezidi people in the Nineveh plains.It ran in the December 2005 elections and won 0.2 % of the popular vote, thus receiving one seat in the Iraqi parliament .The party won a local governorate seat...
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Iran
- KomalahKomalahKomala or Komalah is a Kurdish political party in Iran . The word Komele in Kurdish is derived from Komel and means "association".-Political background:...
- Kurdish United FrontKurdish United FrontKurdish United Front is a political and social movement in Iran that was established in January 2006 to unite all Iranian Kurds to achieve their rights within the Iranian Constitution and to oppose social injustice against Kurds in Iran .There are several chapters of the Front in different provinces...
- Kurdistan Democratic Party of IranKurdistan Democratic Party of IranThe Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan , abbreviated as PDKI, KDPI, PDK-I, is a Kurdish political party in Iranian Kurdistan which seeks the attainment of Kurdish national rights within a democratic federal republic of Iran....
(KDPI) - Party for a Free Life in KurdistanParty for a Free Life in KurdistanThe Party of Free Life of Kurdistan , is a militant Kurdish nationalist group with bases in the mountainous regions of northern Iraq, which has...
(PJAK)
Turkey
- Kurdistan Socialist Party (PSK)
- Kurdish Institute of IstanbulKurdish Institute of IstanbulKurdish Institute of Istanbul , founded in 1992, is an organization focusing on Kurdish literature, language and culture. Kurdish and Turkish intellectuals such as Musa Anter, Yaşar Kaya, Feqî Huseyîn Sagniç, İsmail Beşikçi, Abdurrahman Dürre, İbrahim Gürbüz, Cemşîd Bender ve Süleyman İnanoğlu were...
- Kurdistan Workers PartyKurdistan Workers PartyThe Kurdistan Workers' Party , commonly known as PKK, also known as KGK and formerly known as KADEK or KONGRA-GEL , is a Kurdish organization which has since 1984 been fighting an armed struggle against the Turkish state for an autonomous Kurdistan and greater cultural and political rights...
(PKK)- People's Congress of Kurdistan
- National Liberation Front of Kurdistan
- Kurdish National Liberation Movements
- Islamic Party of KurdistanIslamic Party of KurdistanIslamic Party of Kurdistan is a Kurdish Islamic organisation established in 1979 and led-by Muhammad Salih Mustafa. Other prominent names of the organisation include Hamit Turgut , Osman Caner and Sukuti Evcim...
- Kurdish HezbollahKurdish HezbollahHizbullah , often referred to as the Turkish Hezbollah or Kurdish Hezbollah , to avoid confusion with the completely unrelated Lebanese Shi'a group called Hezbollah, is a Kurdish Sunni Islamist militant organization, active against the Government of Turkey...
- Democratic People's MovementDemocratic People's MovementThe Democratic People's Movement is the electoral wing of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador and a political party in Ecuador since 1978....
(Demokratik Toplum Hareketi or DTH in Turkish) - Rights and Freedoms Party (Hak ve Özgürlükler Partisi or HAK-PAR in Turkish)
- Hereketa İslamiya KurdistanHereketa Islamiya KurdistanHereketa İslamiya Kurdistane is a Kurdish Islamic movement in South-Eastern Turkey. It movement was established 1993 led by Seyda Mele Abdullah....
e (Islamic Movement of Kurdistan/Turkey) - Democratic People's PartyDemocratic People's Party (Turkey)Democratic People's Party was a Kurdish nationalist political party in Turkey. DEHAP was founded 24 October 1997. It was the continuation of the People's Democracy Party , which was banned in March 2003 by the Constitutional Court on the grounds that it supported the Kurdistan Workers Party.At its...
(DEHAP, Demokratik Halk Partisi) - Kurdistan Liberation Party
- Kurdish National Congress
- Kurdish Socialist Party of Turkey
- Kurdistan Freedom FalconsKurdistan Freedom FalconsThe Kurdistan Freedom Falcons , also known as the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks or the Kurdish Vengeance Brigade, is a militant group that has committed attacks throughout Turkey, operating in southern Turkey and northern Iraq with a goal of securing Kurdish secession from Turkey...
- Union of Kurd Labourers
- Kurdistan Democratic Party of Turkey
- Kurdish Islamic Unity Party
- Communist Party of KurdistanCommunist Party of KurdistanCommunist Party of Kurdistan is a political party in Turkey. The KKP was founded in 1982, as the Kurdish section of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey . Prior to 1982, TKEP had a 'Kurdistan Autonomous Organization' from 1980 onwards. In 1990 KKP became an independent party...
- Revolutionary Party of KurdistanRevolutionary Party of KurdistanRevolutionary Party of Kurdistan, known as Kürdistan Devrim Partisi in Turkish and Partiya Şoreşa Kürdistan in Kurdish is an illegal political party active in Turkey...
Syria
- Kurdish Yekiti Party in Syria (PYKS)
- Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria (Al Party)
- Hevgirtin Gel