Center-right, big tent, Kurdish rights party run and dominated by members of the Barzani family and the Barzani tribe in Iraq.
Party split from the exiled anti-Islamic Republic of Iran Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) which operated in Northern Iraq, its base under constant attack by Iran and allies in Iraq.
The KDP [or Partiya Demokrat a Kurdistanê (PDK)] is also the largest party in the Kurdistan Regional Parliament located in the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq.