{{More citations needed|date=July 2015}} {{Infobox political party | country = Turkey | name = Rights and Equality Party | native_name = Hak ve Eşitlik Partisi | logo = Hak ve Eşitlik Partisi (logo).jpg | logo_size = 150px | colorcode = {{party color|Rights and Equality Party}} | founded = {{start date|2008|9|4|df=y}} | dissolved = {{end date|2019|4|21|df=y}} | leader = Yücel Savaş | founder = Osman Pamukoğlu | ideology = Turkish nationalism<br>Patriotism<br>Kemalism<br>Pan-Turkism<br>Halkçılık<br>Social justice<ref>{{cite web|access-date=27 December 2010 |archive-date=27 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111027084345/http://www.hakveesitlik.org.tr/dosya/siyasal_ve_toplumsal_ilkelerimiz.pdf |format=.pdf |language=tr |publisher=hakveesitlik.org.tr |title=Parti Programı |url=http://www.hakveesitlik.org.tr/dosya/siyasal_ve_toplumsal_ilkelerimiz.pdf}}<!-- auto-translated from Turkish by Module:CS1 translator --></ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=27 December 2010 |archive-date=27 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111027083832/http://www.hakveesitlik.org.tr/dosya/hepar_parti_rehberi.pdf |format=.pdf |language=tr |publisher=hakveesitlik.org.tr |title=Parti Rehberi |url=http://www.hakveesitlik.org.tr/dosya/hepar_parti_rehberi.pdf}}<!-- auto-translated from Turkish by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> | position = | colours = {{Color box|#ED1B24|border=darkgray}}{{Color box|#FFFFFF|border=darkgray}}{{Color box|#000000|border=darkgray}} Red, white, black | headquarters = Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak Cad. No:37 Beşevler, Ankara }}
The '''Rights and Equality Party''' ({{langx|tr|Hak ve Eşitlik Partisi}}, '''HEPAR''') was 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 Kurdish–Turkish conflict.<ref>[http://www.hakveesitlik.org.tr/osman-pamukoglu-kimdir.html] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229025604/http://www.hakveesitlik.org.tr/osman-pamukoglu-kimdir.html |date=December 29, 2010 }}</ref>
The party's main manifest was the setting sovereignty, own based economical development and peace for Turkish citizens. The party had 8,273 members as of 2014.<ref name="hakveesitlik1">[http://www.hakveesitlik.org.tr/dosya/siyasal_ve_toplumsal_ilkelerimiz.pdf] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229015024/http://www.hakveesitlik.org.tr/dosya/siyasal_ve_toplumsal_ilkelerimiz.pdf |date=December 29, 2010}}</ref>
The party claimed 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 mentioned Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's quote as "Our target is being a merged society with no classes and privileges."<ref name="hakveesitlik1" />
The party gained 121,814 votes during the 2011 elections, comprising 0.28% of the votes.
The party announced its end of activities during an extraordinary convention on 21 April 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=HEPAR Kendini Kapattı! |url=https://www.gazeteduvar.com.tr/politika/2019/04/22/hepar-kendini-kapatti|date=April 22, 2019}}</ref>
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