Rights and Equality Party
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Rights and Equality Party | |
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| Leader | Osmancan Tekeşin |
| Founder | Osman Pamukoğlu |
| Founded | September 4, 2008 |
| Headquarters | Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak Cad. No:37 Beşevler, Ankara |
| Membership (2014) | 8,273[1] |
| Ideology | Turkish nationalism Populism Kemalism |
| Political position | Third position |
| Colours | Red, white, black |
| Website | |
| Official Site | |
The Rights and Equality Party (Template:Lang-tr, HEPAR) is a political party in Turkey, founded on 4 September 2008 by Osman Pamukoğlu, a former army general known for his military successes against the Kurdistan Workers' Party in the 1990s during the Turkey–PKK conflict.[2]
The party's main manifest is the setting sovereignty, own based economical development and peace for Turkish citizens. The party has 8,273 members as of 2014.[3]
The party claims 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 mentions Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's quote as "Our target is being a merged society with no classes and privileges."[3]
The party has gained 121,814 votes during the 2011 elections, comprising 0.28% of the votes.
References
- ^ "Hak Ve Eşitlik Partisi" (in Turkish). Yargitaycb.gov.tr. 2014-12-16. Retrieved 2015-07-26.
- ^ [1] Archived 2010-12-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b [2] Archived 2010-12-29 at the Wayback Machine
