Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party Parti Sosyalisti Demokrati Kurdistan
Arabic name	الحزب الاشتراكي الديمقراطي الكردستاني Hizb al-Ishtiraki al-Dimuqrati al-Kurdistani
Leader	Mohammed Haji Mahmoud
Founder	Mahmoud Othman Rasool Mahmend Adnan Mufti
Founded	1976
Split from	Kurdistan Democratic Party
Paramilitary wing	Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party Peshmerga
Ideology	Kurdish nationalism Social democracy
Political position	Centre-left
International affiliation	Progressive Alliance
Seats in the Council of Representatives of Iraq	0 / 325
Seats in the Kurdistan Parliament	1 / 111
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Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party (Kurdish: Parti Sosyalisti Demokrati Kurdistan; Arabic: الحزب الاشتراكي الديمقراطي الكردستاني, romanized: Hizb al-Ishtiraki al-Dimuqrati al-Kurdistani) is a political party in Kurdistan Region. The first leader was Saleh Yousefi after 1981. After 1992, the party was led by Mahmoud Othman. The party is currently led by Mohammed Haji Mahmoud. It is a splinter of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.^[1]

In the 2013 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election the party got 12,501 votes (0.6%) and it won one seat in the Kurdistan National Assembly.

Paramilitary wing

The Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party also has a paramilitary wing of Peshmerga soldiers under the direct command of party leader Mohammed Haji Mahmood, whose nom de guerre is "Kaka Hama". The party's forces have fought in the Iraqi Civil War against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), mostly in the region south of Kirkuk. They also took part in the Mosul offensive (2016). Among the party fighters killed in combat against ISIL was Mohammed Haji Mahmood's son Atta.^[2]