[5] On 20 May 2014, members had been taken into custody by security forces of the KDP during operations against different opposition organisations in the cities of Erbil, Dohuk, and Zakho.

The operations were justified by the banning of the party some days before, after a demonstration in front of the Kurdistan Region Parliament organised by the PÇDK to commemorate a massacre of PKK members by the KDP in Erbil in 1997, during the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.

According to the director of the election office of the PÇDK, Hassan Judi, it is one of the major goals that women's participation won't be below 50%.

The PÇDK for its part accused Turkey and the ruling AKP in a statement at the end of 2011 of planning a massacre of the Kurdish people using chemical and other prohibited weapons and fighting without any ethical principles.

The party also claimed that "international communities, institutions and so-called democratic states have been silent in the face of it."

They appealed to the Peshmerga forces to accomplish their national duty and protect the Kurds in Turkey from being massacred.