Prominent PKK Leader Leaves Group
Gabar was born in 1971 in the city of Sanandaj in Iran’s Kurdistan province. He joined the ranks of the PKK in 1999 and was elected member of KCK’s leadership council in 2010. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Bryar Gabar, a prominent member of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and one of the founders of its Iranian affiliate the Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), has left the party and taken up residence in Erbil. An informed source from the PKK’s Qandil Mountain base in the Kurdistan Region told Rudaw that Gabar left the guerrillas in mid-October and has been living in Erbil ever since. Gabar was one of the delegates of the Group of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK) and took part for the past several months in the preparatory meetings for the Kurdish National Congress, an official date for which has still not been announced. KCK is the supreme authority body of the PKK that supervises the group’s political, ideological, military, socio-economic activities, as w