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KDP security forces target KNK, PCDK in
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KDP closes 8 pro-PKK offices
in Iraqi Kurdistan Region
May 20, 2014
DUHOK, Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— The
security forces of Iraqi Kurdistan ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party KDP
launched operations targeting representatives of the
Kurdish National Congress (KNK), as well as many the
offices and members of many other organizations
earlier Monday in three major cities in Iraqi
Kurdistan Region. Many people are reported to have
been taken into custody.
According to information now available, the
operations took place in three cities – Hewlęr
[Erbil], Duhok and Zakho – and targeted, among
others, representatives of the KNK, members and
offices of the Kurdistan Democratic Solution Party (PCDK),
of Dicle News Agency’s Hewlęr bureau, the Rojava
Welat Newspaper, the Patriotic Youth Center, and the
Organization of Free Women of Kurdistan (RJAK). Many
were arrested and a large number of documents were
seized.
At least 25 people were taken into custody in the
operation which targeted the offices of KNK,
Kurdistan Democratic Solution Party (PÇDK), Dicle
News Agency (DIHA), Roja Welat daily, Patriotic
Youth's Center, Kurdistan Free Women's Institution (Saziya
Jinęn Azadixwazi Kürdistan) and Weşana Roja Welat
Magazine.
KDP denies access from
Maxmur Camp to Erbil [Hewlęr]
As a follow-up of Monday's operation against the KNK,
PÇDK, RJAK, Patriotic Youth's Center and Roja Welat
daily, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) is
denying access from the Maxmur Camp to Hewlęr on
Tuesday.
Hundreds of people on their way to work from
Maxmur Martyr Rustem Cudî Camp to Maxmur have not
been allowed to enter the city on Tuesday. The
public security (Asayish) forces hindering the
entrance are reportedly telling people to leave
there, warning that their entrance in Erbil will not
be allowed.
Following Monday's raids in Duhok and Zakhoo in the
morning and in Erbil in the afternoon, the KDP has
had the offices of the raided institutions closed
today.
It grabs attention that the KPD operation against
pro-Kurdish institutions came after the Kurdistan
Democratic Solution Party (PÇDK) demanded that light
be shed on the disappeared at a press conference it
held outside the parliament at the 17th anniversary
of the Hewlęr massacre.
KNK condemns operation
against Kurdish institutions in Iraqi Kurdistan
region
Brussels-based Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) has
released a statement strongly condemning the raids
and detentions carried out by Massoud Barzani's KDP
(Kurdistan Democratic Party) in the Hewlęr, Zakho
and Duhok cities of Iraqi Kurdistan on 19 May.
KNK said "the only reason for this attack is
political", and called attention to the fragile
process the Middle East and Kurdistan is currently
going through. The statement read that; "Historic
opportunities have been generated for Kurds stronger
than ever today, including the opportunity for
national unity. Attacks against national
institutions do however stand as dangerous and a
back step."
Underlining that the attack against KNK
representative goes contrary to national interests
and serves only enemies, KNK condemned vehemently
the attack against Kurdish institutions, and urged
the KRG to immediately abandon this policy and to
release all Kurdish politicians detained in the
operation.
The KDP operation against Kurdish institutions has
also been condemned by the Kurdish Democratic
Society Congress in Europe (KCD-E) and the
Federation of Kurdish Associations in Germany (YEK-KOM).
KDP lashes out at Syrian
Kurdistan's PYD for “totalitarian” policies
The KDP also lashed out at Syrian Kurdish Democratic
Union Party (PYD) for following “totalitarian
policies” in Syrian Kurdistan.
Releasing a statement the KDP politburo blamed the
PYD for expelling pro-KDP party leaders and
officials from Syrian Kurdistan and warned the
policy will lead to the destruction of the Syrian
Kurdish region. The PYD is monopolizing power and
has been resorting to arrests and evictions of
political activists and members of opposition
parties; particularly members of the Al Party, close
to the KDP, and Kurdistan Democratic Party in Syria
(KDPS), an offshoot of the KDP led by Massoud
Barzani.
The statement further said the Kurds living under
PYD rule are in less humane conditions than those
living under Bashar al-Assad. KDP further said that
the party expresses its utmost sympathy for the
Syrian Kurds and the members of the Al Party in
Syrian Kurdistan. Disputes between the PYD and the
KDP has increased in the recent weeks after
Kurdistan Region dug a trench on its borders with
Syria Kurdish regions and the PYD shut down the
offices of pro-KDP parties and expelled some
politicians linked with the party from Syrian
Kurdistan.
The security operations follow an ongoing dispute
over the KDP’s decisions to dig a border trench
between Iraqi Kurdistan and Syrian Kurdistan
and to close the border crossings to Syrian
Kurdistan's refugees, amid accusations that the KDP
is working together with Turkey’s AKP government
against the revolution in Syrian Kurdistan.
The raids also follow the decision taken a number of
days ago to proclaim the PCDK illegal after it
organized a demonstration in front of the KRG’s
parliament to remember the massacre committed in
Hewlęr by KDP forces in 1997.
Many Kurdish organizations accuse the KDP of working
together with Turkey in imposing the embargo the
Syrian Kurdistan. KDP leader and Iraqi Kurdistan
President Massoud Barzani accompanied Turkish Prime
Minister Erdogan at a political rally in Diyarbakir
earlier this year.
The KDP has decided
against recognition of the newly
autonomous Syrian Kurdistan's cantons.
However the PUK,www.Ekurd.net
a
member of the current Kurdistan government KRG, has
claimed to recognize the cantons. Most main Iraqi
Kurdish parties had recognized the autonomous Syrian
Kurdistan administration, except the KDP.
The leaders of four small Syrian Kurdish parties,
affiliated with Iraqi Kurdistan Region President
Massoud Barzani, and which opposite the ruling PYD
party in Syrian Kurdistan, have met in Erbil on
April 3, 2014 and
merged the
Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syriawww.Ekurd.net
(KDPS) (Al Party), the Kurdistan Union Party and
two factions of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (Azadi)
and established a new party PDK-S.
Political experts say Massoud
Barzani, sees Syrian Kurdistan as potential
political competition.
Syrian Kurds
declared their
own autonomous Kurdish region (Western Kurdistan,
Rojava) in November 2013.
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