 Revolutionary Party of Kurdistan is a splinter of the Sociality Unity Party of Kurdistan, known as "Kürdistan Sosyalist Birlik Partisi" in Turkish and "Partiya Yekitiya Sosyalista Kurdistane" in Kurdish.Sociality Unity Party of Kurdistan annulled itself in July 1998 after a meeting in Germany.As a result, the central committee of "YEKBUN" or the United People's Party of Kurdistan ("Kürdistan Birleşik Halk Partisi" in Turkish), resident in Sweden, decided to form a new organization to carry out armed struggle against the Turkish government.