The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP; Kurdish: حیزبی دێموکراتی کوردستان, romanized: Hizba Dêmokrata Kurdistanê, abbreviated HDK; Persian: حزب دموکرات کردستان) was an ethnic party of Kurds in Iran, which split from Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI) in 2006 after a dispute over choosing its next leader in the latter's 13th convention.
[4] The KDPI and Iran's Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP-Iran) have been engaged in several rounds of reunification talks over the years.
[6][7] The first time in 2016, Iranian agents had planted a bomb outside the party headquarters that killed and injured several members.
During the same year 2016 several important members got killed during the western Iranian clashes.
[9] The party was made a full member of the Socialist International at its November 2015 Council meeting in Luanda, Angola.