Islamic Party of Kurdistan

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Islamic Party of Kurdistan (Kurdish: Partiya İslamiya Kurdistan) is a Kurdish (Sunni) Islamic organisation of the southeastern Turkey. established 1979 led-by Muhammad Salih Mustafa. The Kurdish Islamic Party’s main target is to establish an Islamic State. The members of the organisation see this target as a holy mission. The first activities of the organisation were community meetings as Islamic ideological and Nationalistic propaganda. However, to establish the Islamic state, the members began to be armed. Their strategy is by creating a chaotic condition in Turkey, to destabilise the governmental institutions and to start a nation-wide revolt. The last step of their plan is to establish an Islamic Republic of Kurdistan.