Rights and Freedoms Party

Rights and Freedoms Party Hak ve Özgürlükler Partisi Partiya Maf û Azadiyan

Abbreviation	HAK-PAR
Leader	Refik Karakoç
Founder	Abdülmelik Fırat
Founded	2002 (2002)
Headquarters	Diyarbakır, Turkey
Ideology	Federalism Cultural liberalism
Political position	Left-wing
International affiliation	None
Colours	Red, yellow & black
Parliament:	0 / 550
Municipalities:	1 / 1,381
Councillors:	0 / 21,751
Website
www.hakpar.org.tr
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The Rights and Freedoms Party (Kurdish: Partiya Maf û Azadiyan‎, Turkish: Hak ve Özgürlükler Partisi, abbreviated HAK-PAR) is a Kurdish nationalist^[1] political party in Turkey.

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.^[2]

In the local elections of 2014, the party won the municipal mayoralty in Konukbekler, Muş, attaining 43,846 votes.^[3] In the June 2015 general election, HAK-PAR participated for the first time in a general election, winning 58,698 votes.

List of Leaders

#	Name	Term starts	Term ends
1	Abdülmelik Fırat	2002	2006
2	Sertaç Bucak	2006	2008
3	Bayram Bozyel	2008	2012
4	Kemal Burkay	2012	2014
5	Fehmi Demir	2014	2015
6	Refik Karakoç	2016

Elections

General elections

Election	Votes	Percentage	Seats
June 2015	58.716	%0,13	0 / 550
November 2015	110.161	%0,23^[4]	0 / 550

Local elections

Election	Votes	Percentage	Municipalities
2009	29.392	%0,07	0
2014	43.846	%0,09	1

References

↑ "HAK-PAR leader's funeral brings Kurdish leaders together". Rudaw. Retrieved 2 November 2015. ...the chairman of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Rights and Freedoms Party (HAK-PAR)...
↑ "Hak-Par leader Fehmi Demir dies in traffic accident". Today's Zaman. 26 October 2015. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
↑ http://www.haberdiyarbakir.com/konukbekler-belediye-baskanligini-hak-par-kazandi-62777h/
↑ "TRT Seçim" (in Turkish). Retrieved 2 November 2015.

Political parties in Turkey

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Kurdish organisations

Turkey

Communist Party of Kurdistan (KKP)
Democracy Party (DEP)
Democratic People's Party (DEHAP)
Democratic Society Party (DTP)
Democratic Regions Party (DBP)
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP)
Hereketa İslamiya Kurdistan (HİK)
Kurdish Hizbollah
Islamic Party of Kurdistan (PİK)
Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK)
Kurdistan Democratic Party/North (KDP/Bakur)
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
People's Defence Forces (HPG)
Free Women's Units (YJA-STAR)
National Liberation Front of Kurdistan (ERNK)
Peace and Democracy Party (BDP)
People's Democracy Party (HADEP)
People's Labor Party (HEP)
Revolutionary Party of Kurdistan (PŞK)
Rights and Freedoms Party (HAK-PAR)
Society for the Rise of Kurdistan
Xoybûn (CSK)
Workers Vanguard Party of Kurdistan (PPKK)
Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK)
Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H)
Civil Protection Units (YPS)
Civil Protection Units-Women (YPS-Jin)

Syria

Democratic Union Party (PYD)
Kurdish National Council (KNC-ENKS)
Kurdish Supreme Committee
Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria (KDP-S)
Kurdish Democratic Political Union
People's Protection Units (YPG)
Women's Protection Units (YPJ)
Jabhat al-Akrad
TEV-DEM

Iraq

Iran

Komalah
Komalah (CPI)
Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDP-I)
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)
Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK)
Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK)
Khabat
Kurdish United Front (KUP)

Lebanon

Diaspora

Confederation of Kurdish Associations in Europe (KON-KURD)
Kurdish Heritage Foundation of America
Kurdish Student Academic Association (KSAF)

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