The Rights and Freedoms Party (, , abbreviated HAK-PAR) is a Kurdish nationalist 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.
In the local elections of 2014, the party won the municipal mayoralty in Konukbekler, Muş, attaining 43,846 votes. 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 2019 7 Abdullatif Epözdemir 2019 2022 8 Düzgün Kaplan 2022 Incumbent
Elections General elections Election Votes Percentage Seats June 2015 58,716 %0.13 November 2015 110,161 %0.23 202342,5470.08%
Local elections Election 2009 29,392 0.07% 0 2014 43,846 0,09% 12019Not eligible to contest202432,6330,07%0
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