Islamic Movement of Kurdistan
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Kurdistan Islamic Movement
بزووتنةوي ئيسلامي لة كوردستان Bizûtinewey Îslamî le Kurdistan |
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| Leader | Erfan Ali Abdulaziz |
| Founded | 1979 |
| Headquarters | Halabja |
| Ideology |
Kurdish nationalism Islamism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| International affiliation | Kurdish Brotherhood |
| Colours | black |
| Seats in the Kurdistan Parliament: |
1 / 111
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| Website | |
| basknet.org | |
The Kurdistan Islamic Movement (Kurdish: بزووتنهوی ئيسلامی له كوردستان, translit. Bizûtinewey Îslamî le Kurdistan) is an Islamist group founded in 1979 by Shaykh Uthman Abd-Aziz and several other Sunni mullahs who were all part of the non-political "Union of Religious Scholars" (Yaketi Mamostayani Ayni Islami). The party's main support comes from in and around that town of Halabjah. In the region controlled by the Islamic Movement in Kurdistan, the party established its own infrastructure but did not seek to apply Sharia law. Sheikh Uthman Abd al-Aziz was appointed as a mufti (religious judge) by the Islamic Movement of Kurdistan.
In the 1992 Iraqi Kurdistan elections the party received 5.1% of the vote, the third largest after the PUK and KDP. In 1993 the PUK ceded control of territory around Halabja, Tawella and Panjwin to the party after heavy fighting, and the party controlled Halabjah from 1998 to 2000.
In 1998 al-Aziz moved to Irbil with a number of followers. After Abdal-Aziz's death in 1999 the leadership of the party passed to his brother Mullah Ali Abd al-Aziz Halabji, who has his office in Halabjah.
Armed hostilities, which resulted in deaths were reported between the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Islamic Groups, Kurdistan Workers Party, and the Kurdistan Democratic Party. The heaviest fighting began in September 2001, when a newly created Islamist group, the Ansar al-Islam, seized control of some villages near the Iranian border and attempted to institute a strictly Islamist theocratic regime.
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