| Description | Folder containing papers relating to the early activities of the KDP in Syria and Iraq, including the text of various appeals written by Mustafa Barzani to world leaders, public opinion etc (19 May 1962 to 1966), a copy of a historical document in Arabic issued by the KDP (April 1962) with preface and afterword, a cyclostyled handwritten proclamation to the Kurdish people by the KDP dated 12 May 1962, two documents published by the KDP in Syria (1963), a KDP press release from 17 August 1963, a memorandum from the KDP to the Iraqi Prime Minister about Kurdish rights (March 1964), a report on recent decisions by the Kurdish Democratic Party in Syria and the KDP in Iraq (March 1964), a 25-page document in Arabic - 'Fi sabil siyanat al-thawrah wa-tahqiq ahdafiha' - reporting on decisions and proclamations made by the KDP's 1964 conference (April 1964), a KDP statement issued 4 May 1964, a handwritten six page open letter from the KDP (15 July 1964), a proclamation by the KDP in Europe responding to statements by Dr. Murad Azbar (September 1964), a printed Proclamation by the KDP in Silemani (21 November 1964, in Sorani Kurdish), an open letter from the KDP to the President of Iraq (15 December 1964), a press release by the KDP on the agreement signed by Mustafa Barzani (February 1965), Press bulletin no 1 issued by the KDP, Europe Branch (March 1965), Press release on Newroz by the KDP, Sulemani Branch (March 1965), a document on the internal structure of the KDP issued by the KDP in Europe (May 1965), press releases in May and June 1965 on the visits of Sayed Aziz Shemzini and Jalal Talabani to the House of Commons, a press release issued in London (15 June 1965) on Barzani's telegrams to African leaders, a statement by the KDP about negotiations between the Arab Socialist Unions of Egypt and Iraq (July 1965), a letter from Hashim al-Zalimi [?] of the Ba`th Party to the Political Bureau of the KDP (4 July 1965), an open letter from Mustafa Barzani about Wurya Rawanduzi and Said Dizeyee (25 August 1965), a copy of a four-page document published by the Provisional leadership of the KDP in Syria (1966), a declaration by the KDP (2 April 1966), a letter to KDP members in Europe (17 April 1966), three copies of a KDP press release on the Peshmerga (June 1966), communiqués in Arabic and English from Mustafa Barzani to the Iraqi Government (November 1966), the final communique of the sixth congress of the KDP (1967), copies in English and Swedish of the KDP programme approved by their 7th congress (October 1967) as well as resolutions and the political report, a KDP press release (dated 2 September 1966), on the anniversary of 6 September 1930, a KDP press release of 23 April 1968 responding to Iraqi military decrees from the previous week, a letter to Arab communist parties from KDP in Europe (7 May 1968), final communiques from the First (1965) and Second (1967) and Third (1969) Congresses of the KDP in Europe, an undated appeal by the KDP to other democratic parties, proclamations (1965-66) by the KDP in Europe responding to Communist claims about the Party's recent congress and more general developments in Iraqi Kurdistan,three KDP press releases in Sorani Kurdish from 1966, a KDP newsletter for Newroz 1966, a KDP in Europe press release (1 July 1966) and letter to members (December 1966), a bulletin issued by the KDP Europe Branch, containing the final communiqué of the 2nd congress of the party, a communiqué from the second conference of the KDP Europe Branch (September 1967), and various press releases by the KDP from November 1968, a letter on Newroz from the KDP Europe Branch (31 March 1970), a press release by KDP Europe Branch (August 1970), an open letter from Jamal Alamdar, KDP representative in Europe (November 1970) and a short history of Kurdistan by the same author (in Swedish, ca. 1969.)
There is also handwritten correspondence between Omar Sheikhmous, Abdulhamid Derwish and Kawus Qaftan, a letter to Sheikhmous from the polit-bureau of the KDP in Syria signed by Osman Sabri (1964), formal communications to and from KDP bodies such as the Congress of Unity and Politbureau in Syria, a memorandum by Sheikhmous from 1971 addressed to the three Kurdish parties in Syria, and several articles from the KDP-sponsored newspaper 'Al-Nur' (8 September 1969, 11 and 25 October 1969 and 25 March 1970) as well as Issues no 2 (June 1965), 3 (December 1965), 4 (January 1966), 6 (March 1966), 7 (June 1966) and 8 (October 1967) of the KDP Europe Branch bulletin 'Sadá Kurdistan', the text of the agreement signed on 11 March 1970 between Mustafa Barzani and Iraq, a KDP translation (April 1970) of the main points of the Iraqi Government declaration of 11 March 1970, a press release by KDP in Europe on the first anniversary of this agreement of (11 March 1971), a KDP in Europe press release from August 1970, a Congress programme and political report of the 8th national congress of the KDP in Kurdistan (10 July 1970), a photocopy of an undated constitution of the KDP and a press release by the KDP Europe Branch on the fifth anniversary of the founding of the KDP, a 1969 Proclamation by KDP leader Mustafa Barzani, Issues no 326 (10 November 1969) and 336 (20 November 1969) of the Iraqi newsletter Nahj al-nur, a KDP booklet on the position of the Baath Party of Iraq on democracy and parliament (1 January 1969), a communiqué from the KDP, Baghdad Branch, dated 16 August 1969, a small leaflet containing a declaration by the KDP (1968), a copy of the KDP paper 'Khabat' ['Xebat'] from 1965 with a copy of an article from 1969.
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