Hak ve Özgürlükler Partisi
| Hak ve Özgürlükler Partisi Partiya Maf û Azadiyan Party for Law and Freedoms |
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| Party leader | Refik Karakoç |
| founding | February 11, 2002 |
| Headquarters | Cumhuriyet Mahallesi Mithat Paşa caddesi No. 24 Kızılay-Ankara |
| Colours) | yellow Red |
| Website | www.hakpar.org.tr |
The Hak ve Özgürlükler Partisi (Kurdish: Partiya Maf û Azadiyan ; German: Party for Law and Freedoms ) for short HAK-PAR , is a Kurdish party in Turkey. After three years of preparation, a group around the former Democrat Parti MP Abdülmelik Fırat founded the HAK-PAR on February 11, 2002 in Ankara . Fırat was a grandson of the cleric Sheikh Said , who rose against the state in 1925 and was subsequently executed. The central concern of the HAK-PAR is the federal solution of the Kurdish question within a democratic Turkey. The party formed an antipole to the Kurdish Halkın Demokrasi Partisi and their successors.
Kemal Burkay was the party chairman between November 2012 and 2014 . Burkay is a prominent Kurdish activist and politician who returned to Turkey in late 2011 after decades of exile in Europe. He was replaced by Fehmi Demir, who had a fatal accident in his car a week before the general election in November 2015 .
Chairperson
- Abdülmelik Fırat : February 2002–2006
- Sertaç Bucak : 2006-2008
- Bayram Bozyel : 2008–2012
- Kemal Burkay : 2012-2014
- Fehmi Demir : 2014–2015
- Refik Karakoç : 2016–