The Kurdistan Communities Union (Kurdish: Koma Civakên Kurdistan‎, KCK) is a Kurdish political organization committed to implementing Abdullah Öcalan's ideology of Democratic Confederalism.[1] The KCK also serves as an umbrella group for all the Democratic Confederalist political parties of Greater Kurdistan, including the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Democratic Union Party (PYD), Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), and the Kurdistan Democratic Solution Party (PÇDK).