Rights and Freedoms Party

The Rights and Freedoms Party (Kurdish: Partiya Maf û Azadiyan, Turkish: Hak ve Özgürlükler Partisi, abbreviated HAK-PAR) is a Kurdish nationalist^[3] political party in Turkey.

AbbreviationHAK-PAR

LeaderDüzgün Kaplan

FounderAbdülmelik Fırat

Founded11 February 2002

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Rights and Freedoms Party Hak ve Özgürlükler Partisi Partiya Maf û Azadiyan
Abbreviation	HAK-PAR
Leader	Düzgün Kaplan
Founder	Abdülmelik Fırat
Founded	11 February 2002
Headquarters	Diyarbakır
Membership (2026)	1,667[1]
Ideology	Kurdish nationalism[2][3] Federalism[2] Pluralist democracy[2] Equalitarianism[2] Libertarianism[2] Solidarism[2] Participatory democracy[2] Decentralization[2] Progressivism[2] Environmentalism[2] Secularism[2] Pro-Europeanism[2]
Colours	Red, yellow & black
Website
www.hakpar.org.tr
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Advocating federalism as a means of increasing Kurdish autonomy in the south-east of the country, the party split from the Democratic People's Party (DEHAP) in 2002. The party's head office is in Diyarbakır. Until his death in October 2015, the party was headed by Fehmi Demir.^[4]

In the local elections of 2014, the party won the municipal mayoralty in Konukbekler, Muş, attaining 43,846 votes.^[5] In the June 2015 general election, HAK-PAR participated for the first time in a general election, winning 58,698 votes.