Freedom and Democracy Party

{{short description|Pro-Kurdish party in Turkey}}

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|name = Freedom and Democracy Party
Kurdish:
Turkish: Özgürlük ve Demokrasi Partisi, ÖZDEP

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|leader = Mevlüt İlik

|founded = {{start date|1992|10|19}}

|banned = {{End date|1993|11|23}}

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|predecessor= People's Labor Party

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|successor = Democracy Party

|ideology = Social democracy
Kurdish nationalism

|position = Centre-left

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Freedom and Democracy Party (Turkish: Özgürlük ve Demokrasi Partisi, ÖZDEP) was a pro-Kurdish rights party in Turkey. The party was created in October 1992 after the People's Labor Party (HEP) was banned.{{cite book|last1=Mert|first1=Yener Lütfü|title=Cumhuriyet döneminde kapatılan siyasi partiler : kapatma davaları, gerekçeleri ve sonuçları|date=2008|publisher=İlkim|location=Ankara|isbn=978-6056000607|page=68|edition=1.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WjMyAQAAIAAJ|language=Turkish}} Four months after its formation, ÖZDEP was banned by the constitutional court of Turkey on charges of supporting self-determination and for conducting bureaucratic services in the Kurdish language.{{cite web|title=History of kurdish political parties in Turkey|url=http://en.hdpeurope.com/?page_id=537|publisher=HDP Europe}}{{cite book|last1=Halliday|first1=Terence C.|last2=Karpik|first2=Lucien|last3=Feeley|first3=Malcolm M.|title=Fighting for Political Freedom Comparative Studies of the Legal Complex and Political Liberalism.|date=2007|publisher=Hart Pub.|location=Oxford|isbn=978-1847314024|page=237|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b-7bBAAAQBAJ}} In an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, Turkey was ordered to pay compensation for the closure of the party in December 1999.{{Cite web |title=Freedom and Democracy Party (ÖZDEP) v Turkey, Merits and just satisfaction, App no 23885/94, ECHR 1999-VIII, IHRL 3345 (ECHR 1999), 8th December 1999, European Court of Human Rights [ECHR]; Grand Chamber [ECHR] |url=https://opil.ouplaw.com/display/10.1093/law:ihrl/3345echr99.case.1/law-ihrl-3345echr99 |website=Oxford University Press |language=en }}