The Rights and Freedoms Party ( ku, Partiya Maf û Azadiyan, tr, Hak ve Özgürlükler Partisi, abbreviated HAK-PAR) is a
Kurdish nationalist political party in
Turkey
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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
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Situated around a high plateau by the banks of the Tigris river on which stands the historic Diyarbakır Fortres ...
. 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
Elections
General elections
Local elections
References
{{Kurdish parties in Turkey
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Kurdish nationalist political parties
Kurdish political parties in Turkey
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Political parties in Turkey