Abdülmelik Fırat (1934, Hınıs – 29 September 2009, Ankara) was a prominent Turkish-Kurdish politician.
Following the defeat of the rebellion led by Sheikh Said and the subsequent execution of him, his surviving relatives were exiled.
[5] For some time, he held sympathies for the People's Democracy Party (HADEP)[6] before in 2001 he established the Rights and Freedoms Party (Turkish: Hak ve Özgürlükler Partisi, HAK-PAR) 2001 in competition of it.
Fırat said the PKK had been set up by the Turkish "deep state" and worked closely with the Turkish Gendarmerie's JITEM intelligence unit, and that leader Abdullah Öcalan had worked with the National Intelligence Organization before founding the PKK.
[8] His book The Euphrates Flows Sadly was the issue of an investigation on separatist propaganda in 1996.