Yekîtiya Siyasî ya Demokrata Kurd | |
Merged into | Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria |
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Formation | 15 December 2012[1] |
Founded at | Qamishli, Syrian Kurdistan |
Dissolved | April 2014 |
Region served | Syrian Kurdistan |
Secessions | Kurdish Union Party in Syria (PYKS) in 2013 |
The Kurdish Democratic Political Union (Kurdish: Yekîtiya Siyasî ya Demokrata Kurd, Arabic: الإتحاد السياسي الديمقراطي الكوردي), or KDPU was a Syrian Kurdish alliance linked to Iraqi Kurdish president Massoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).
Founded in December 2012 in Qamishli, it was aimed at forming a new party to rival the dominant role of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in governing the de facto independent Syrian Kurdish region of Rojava. After one of the parties had broken apart in 2013, the alliance dissolved in April 2014 with the remaining parties merging into the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria (KDP-S).