Document #1289760
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
No information could be found regarding the
Yekiti Party in Iraq among the sources currently available to the
IRBDC. However, one source defines "Yekîtî" as meaning
"union" and there is a Kurdish Party from Iraq named "Kurdistan
Patriotic Union" (U.P.K., see the photocopy of Christiane More,
1988, pp. 121-129) which has a youth marxist-leninist organization
called "Komala" (Christiane More, 1988:199). As More points out,
"Le Komala, organisation clandestine de jeunes
marxistes-léninistes fut constitué le 10 juin 1970,
en opposition au P.D.K.-Irak et en-dehors du Parti Communiste
Irakien, Section du Kurdistan" (Christiane More, 1988:121).
"Yekîtî" is the name of a
newspaper published in Europe and produced by the "Kurdistan
Communist Party" from Turkey. According to Christiane More,
"L'organe du Parti Communiste du Kurdistan, Yekîtî
(Union), est publié en Europe" (1988:199).
The word "Yekîtî" is also found
in the name of a federated association based in Sweden composed of
Kurds from Turkey and named "Yekîtî Komala
Karkerên Kurdistan" (Christiane More, 1988: 237).
Attached photocopies of Christiane More's
book Les Kurdes Aujourd'hui, and of the Minority Rights
Group Report number 23, 1989, pp. 18-25.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
More, Christiane, Les Kurdes
Aujourd'hui: Mouvement National et Partis Politiques,
L'Harmattan ed., Paris, 1988.