Kurdistan Free Life Party

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The Kurdistan Free Life Party, or PJAK (Kurdish: پارتی ژیانی ئازادی کوردستان, romanized: Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistanê), is an armed Kurdish militant group. It has waged an intermittent armed struggle since 2004 against the Iranian Government, seeking self-determination through some degree of autonomy for Kurds in Iran (also known as "Eastern Kurdistan" or "Rojhelat"). The PJAK is aligned with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) through the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), an umbrella group of Kurdish political and insurgent groups in Turkey, Iran, Syria, and Iraq. PJAK spokespersons have repeatedly told visiting media that its armed wing, the Eastern Kurdistan Units (YRK), has approximately 3,000 active members – half of them women – however estimates from academic specialists over the years point to more conservative figures such as 1,000. However, PJAK's capabilities to inflict significant damage on Islamic Republic of Iran forces in Kurdish areas of Iran has by some accounts been...

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