Freedom and Equality Party

For the Ethiopian political party, see Freedom and Equality Party (Ethiopia).

The Freedom and Equality Party (Turkish: Özgürlük ve Eşitlik Partisi, ÖZEP) was a short-lived pro-Kurdish rights party in Turkey. The party was created in June 1992 before the People's Labor Party (HEP) was banned in July 1992 by the 18 deputies of the HEP. ÖZEP later joined HEP again.^[1]

Freedom and Democracy Party Özgürlük ve Eşitlik Partisi
Founded	June 25, 1992 (1992-06-25)
Banned	July 4, 1992 (1992-07-04)
Preceded by	People's Labor Party
Merged into	People's Labor Party
Ideology	Social democracy Kurdish nationalism
Political position	Centre-left
Politics of Turkey Political parties Elections

See also

• Racism in Turkey
• Kurds in Turkey
• Human rights of Kurdish people in Turkey