Kurdish Democratic Party (Lebanon)

Kurdish Democratic Party in Lebanon
Kurdish Democratic Party in Lebanon
Founded	1960; 64 years ago
Dissolved	1982; 42 years ago
Ideology	Kurdish nationalism
International affiliation	Kurdistan Democratic Party
Parliament of Lebanon	0 / 128
Website
	www.kdp-lebanon.org
	Politics of Lebanon; Political parties; Elections;

The Kurdish Democratic Party in Lebanon (

Kurdish: Parti a Demoqrat a Kurdi e Lubnan; Arabic: Hizb al-Dimuqrati al-Kurdi fi Lubnan) or Parti Democratique Kurde – Liban (PDK-L) in French, is the Lebanese branch of a namesake Iraqi-based Kurdish nationalist party, established by Jamil Mihhu in 1960, and based in Lebanon.^[1] However, it was not licensed until 24 September 1970.^[2]

Mihhu supported the

Kurdish rebels fighting for an independent Iraqi Kurdistan

and he was captured and imprisoned by the Kurdish resistance in Iraq.

Consequently, the leadership of the party passed to Jamil's son, Riyad. Another son, Muhammad, disagreed with his family's position on several issues and therefore in 1977 started his own movement, the Kurdish Democratic Party-Temporary Leadership.

The party ceased activities in 1982 after the death of Jamil Mihhu, and lost its legal status in 1991.[2]

The KDP-L in the Lebanese Civil War 1975–1990

When the

Lebanese Army,^[4]

and anti-Arafat dissident Palestinian guerrilla factions.

References

^ "Kurdish Parties". Country Studies. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
^
ISBN 978-0-313-31543-5
. Retrieved 29 September 2014.

^ Stork, Joe. "The War of the Camps, The War of the Hostages" in MERIP Reports, No. 133. (June 1985), pp. 3–7, 22.
^ O'Ballance, Civil War in Lebanon (1998), p. 158.