The Rights and Equality Party ( tr, Hak ve Eşitlik Partisi, HEPAR) was a political party in

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

, founded on 4 September 2008 by

Osman Pamukoğlu Osman Pamukoğlu (born December 27, 1947) is a retired major general of the Turkish Army, author and politician who founded the Rights and Equality Party The Rights and Equality Party ( tr, Hak ve Eşitlik Partisi, HEPAR) was a political part ...

, a former army general known for his military successes against the

Kurdistan Workers' Party The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement, which historically operated throughout Kurdistan, but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of south ...

in the 1990s during the

Kurdish–Turkish conflict Kurdish nationalism, Kurdish nationalist uprisings have periodically occurred in Turkey, beginning with the Turkish War of Independence and the consequent transition from the Ottoman Empire to the modern Turkish state and continuing to the prese ...

. The party's main manifest was the setting sovereignty, own based economical development and peace for Turkish citizens. The party had 8,273 members as of 2014.
The party claimed their ideology as being neither on the right nor left, above all with populist, nationalist aiming social justice for Turkish citizens. The party chairman Osman Pamukoğlu often mentioned

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, or Mustafa Kemal Pasha until 1921, and Ghazi Mustafa Kemal from 1921 Surname Law (Turkey), until 1934 ( 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish Mareşal (Turkey), field marshal, Turkish National Movement, re ...

's quote as "Our target is being a merged society with no classes and privileges." The party gained 121,814 votes during the 2011 elections, comprising 0.28% of the votes. The party announced its end of activities during an extraordinary convention on 21 April 2019.

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