Eastern Kurdistan Defense Units

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Eastern Kurdistan Defense Units
Yekîneyên Parastina Rojhilatê Kurdistan (YRK)
Leader(s) Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi
Dates of operation 2004–present
Motives To establish semiautonomous regional entities or Kurdish federal states in Iran, Turkey and Syria similar to the Kurdistan Regional Government,[1] and establish a democratic confederalism as theorised by Abdullah Öcalan.
Active region(s) Iraq, Turkey and Iran
Ideology Secularism,
Kurdish nationalism
Feminism,
Democratic confederalism
Status Active

The Eastern Kurdistan Defense Units or YRK (Kurdish: Yekîneyên Parastina Rojhilatê Kurdistan‎) is the male armed wing of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), and has been engaged in an armed conflict with the Iranian authorities since 2004.

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