Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistanê

LC control no.	n 2009051679
Corporate name heading	Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistanê *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Partî Jiyanî Azadî Kurdistan پارتى ژيانى ئازادى کوردستان PJAK PEJAK Ḥizb-i Ḥayāt-i Āzād-i Kurdistān حزب حيات آزاد کردستان Party of Free Life of Kurdistan Free Life Party of Kurdistan Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan
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Found in	PJAK, 2005: t.p. (حزب حيات آزاد کردستان = Ḥizb-i Ḥayāt-i Āzād-i Kurdistān) Wikipedia, via www, 14 Aug 2009: (The Party of Free Life of Kurdistan or Free Life Party of Kurdistan or Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (Kurdish: پارتى ژيانى ئازادى کوردستان Partî Jiyanî Azadî Kurdistan or Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistanê) or PJAK, also sometimes mistakenly written as PEJAK, is a militant Kurdish nationalist group with bases in the mountainous regions of northern Iraq, carrying out numerous attacks in western Iran, southern Turkey and the northeastern parts of Syria where the Kurdish populations live ... A recent New York Times article stated that PJAK and PKK "appear to a large extent to be one and the same, and share the same goal: fighting campaigns to win new autonomy and rights for Kurds in Iran and Turkey. They share leadership, logistics and allegiance to Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK leader currently imprisoned in Turkey.")