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Kurdistan Toilers' Party حزبی زەحمەتکێشانی کوردستان | |
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Leader | Belên Ebdulla |
Founded | 1985 |
Split from | Kurdistan United Socialist Party |
Ideology | Social democracy[1] Kurdish nationalism[2] Historical: Socialism |
Political position | Center-left to left-wing |
Council of Representatives of Iraq: | 0 / 328 |
Kurdistan Parliament: | 0 / 111 |
The Kurdistan Toilers' Party (Kurdish: حزبی زەحمەتکێشانی کوردستان, romanized: Hizbî Zehmetkêşanî Kurdistan, also known as Zahmatkeshan) 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.[3] They had belonged to the left wing of the party and had criticized the leadership for abandoning socialism in favor of tribal democracy.[4]