Rights and Freedoms Party

The Rights and Freedoms Party (Kurdish: Partiya Maf û Azadiyan, Turkish: Hak ve Özgürlükler Partisi, abbreviated HAK-PAR) is a Kurdish nationalist[3] 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.

Until his death in October 2015, the party was headed by Fehmi Demir.

[4] In the local elections of 2014, the party won the municipal mayoralty in Konukbekler, Muş, attaining 43,846 votes.

[5] In the June 2015 general election, HAK-PAR participated for the first time in a general election, winning 58,698 votes.