Kurd Mullah Krekar... involved in European terror attacks too... Italy even wanted him for involvement with terror cells there:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/07/mullah-krekar-will-be-relocating-to-a-warmer-climate/
Krekar’s family has both PUK and KDP members, he claims not to be concerned about parties but rather wants a Talibanlike caliphate..
PUK, like the US Congress’ Progressive Caucus members, is a member of Socialist International, very tight with Iran.
KDP is more confusing, fractured more along tribal/family lines than ideology, less ‘progressive’...occasionally goes into anti communist mode though its roots go back to Soviet influence. Its peshmerga are the ones we were interested in.......very complicated history also involving Iran.
The conservatives were the old monarchists.
If ever there was to be an independent Kurdistan, the PKK’s palestinian-trained terrorists, other communists and socialists would destroy it... while the KDP factions squabble among themselves.