Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan
The Organization of the Toilers of Kurdistan (Kurdish: کۆمهڵهی زهحمهتکیشانی کوردستان, Persian: کومله زحمتکشان کردستان), also known as the Komala – Reform Faction, was an armed communist and separatist ethnic party of Kurds in Iran based in northern Iraq.
Komala – Reform Faction | |
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| Leader | Omar Ilkhanizade |
| Founded | October 2007 |
| Dissolved | November 2022 |
| Split from | Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan |
| Headquarters | Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
| International affiliation | Socialist International (Observer) |
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It split from the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan in October 2007 over internal disagreements but reunited with them in November 2022.
It was led by Omar Ilkhanizade and operated a television network named ASOsat.
On 21 June 2023, the alliance between the group and the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan collapsed. Following the collapse, the two clashed, and as a result of the infighting, two were killed and three were wounded. The clashes took place in Zargawez in Iraq's Kurdistan Region. Norway-based Kurdish human rights NGO Hengaw offered readiness to mediate between the two.