Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan – Reunification Faction

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Komala – Reunification Faction
LeaderAbdulla Konaposhi
Founded29 April 2008; 16 years ago (2008-04-29)
Split fromKomala Party of Iranian Kurdistan
HeadquartersSulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism–Leninism
Political positionFar-left
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The Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan – Reunification Faction (Kurdish: كۆمه‌ڵه‌ی شۆڕشگێڕی زه‌حمه‌تكێشانی كوردستانی ئێران – ڕه‌وتی‌ یه‌کگرتنه‌وه, romanized: Komełey Şorrişgêrrî Zehmetkêşanî Kurdistanî Êran – Rewtî Yêkgirtnewe)[1] simply known as the Komala – Reunification Faction, was an armed communist and separatist ethnic party of Kurds in Iran, currently exiled in northern Iraq.

It split from the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan on 29 April 2008 over internal disagreements[2] and is led by Abdulla Konaposhi.[1][2]

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  1. ^ a b Romano, David; Gurses, Mehmet (2014), Conflict, Democratization, and the Kurds in the Middle East: Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria (1st ed.), Springer, p. 75, doi:10.1057/9781137409997_4, ISBN 978-1-137-40999-7
  2. ^ a b Ahmadzadeh, Hashem; Stansfield, Gareth (2010), "The Political, Cultural, and Military Re-Awakening of the Kurdish Nationalist Movement in Iran", Middle East Journal, 64 (1): 11–27, doi:10.3751/64.1.11, hdl:10871/9414, JSTOR 20622980, S2CID 143462899