Koma Civakên Kurdistan

Kurdistan Communities Union Koma Civakên Kurdistan (KCK)
Leadership
Honorary Leader	Abdullah Öcalan
President of Legislative Council	Zübeyir Aydar
Co-Chairperson of Executive Council	Cemil Bayık
Co-Chairperson of Executive Council	Bese Hozat
Structure
Political groups	Kurdistan Workers' Party (Turkey) Democratic Union Party (Syria) Kurdistan Free Life Party (Iran) Kurdistan Democratic Solution Party (Iraq)

The Kurdistan Communities Union or KCK (Kurdish: Koma Civakên Kurdistan‎) is a Kurdish political organization committed to implementing Abdullah Öcalan's ideology of Democratic Confederalism. The KCK also serves as an umbrella group for all the Apoist political parties of Greater Kurdistan, including the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party), PYD (Democratic Union Party), PJAK (Kurdistan Free Life Party), and PÇDK (Kurdistan Democratic Solution Party).

Although Abdullah Öcalan is the group's representative leader, due to his imprisonment the organization is led by an assembly called Kurdistan People's Congress (Kongra-Gel), which serves as the group's legislature. The President of the Kongra-Gel is Zübeyir Aydar. The Assembly elects a 31-person Executive Council. The first Chairman of this Executive Council was Murat Karayılan, while Cemil Bayık was said to be the Executive Council's Vice-President. In the General Assembly of the PKK in July 2013, the KCK's executive leadership was restructured. In place of the old position of a single chairperson, a dual co-chair system was implemented, with one position reserved for a male and the other for a female. Cemil Bayık and Bese Hozat took these new positions, while Karayılan was made commander-in-chief of the People's Defence Forces (HPG), the PKK's official armed wing.

There are five main subdivisions of the KCK: the ideological front, the social front, the political front, the military front and the women's division. In addition to the PKK, political parties such as the PJAK (Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistanê - The Free Life Party of Kurdistan) active in Iran and the PYD (Partiya Yekiti a Demokratik - Democratic Union Party, in Kurdish) active in Syria, as well as civil society organizations, and the PKK's armed wing, the HPG (Hêzên Parastina Gel - People's Defense Forces, in Kurdish) and the YPG (Yekîneyên Parastina Gel - People's Protection Units, in Kurdish) are included. In Iraq the party is called PÇDK - Partiya Çaresera Demokratik Kurdistan (Kurdistan Democratic Solution Party).