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The Kurdish National Congress (KNC or KNK) is a multi-national platform of kurdish groups and parties of all tendencies, which aims to Independence of Kurdistan. It was founded on 14 April 1985 on the initiative of the Kurdistan Workers' Party. It was inaugurated on 24 May 1999 in Brussels. The group has more recently be referred to as the Kurdish National Congress in the Diaspora.

The convention of the KNC was endorsed on 26 May 1999, at the organization's founding assembly, and amended most recently at the ninth assembly which took place in December 2008.

Recently conferences held by the group have reaffirmed their wish that Kurds may have their national identity recognized and the territory of Kurdistan to be respected.