Fehmi Demir

Fehmi Demir
Leader of the Rights and Freedoms Party
In office 26 October 2014 – 25 October 2015
Preceded by	Kemal Burkay
Succeeded by	Refik Karakoç
Personal details
Born	(1957-01-02)2 January 1957 Yeniceoba, Turkey
Died	25 October 2015(2015-10-25) (aged 58) Tarsus, Mersin Province, Turkey
Political party	People's Labour Party (HEP) 1990-93) Democracy Party (1993-94) Democracy and Change Party (1994-95) Democracy and Peace Party (1996-2002) Rights and Freedoms Party (2002-15)
Alma mater	Eskişehir Academy of Economics and Commercial Sciences

Fehmi Demir (2 January 1957 – 25 October 2015) was a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin who served as the leader of the Rights and Freedoms Party (HAK-PAR) from October 2014 until his death a year later in October 2015. He advocated a federalist agenda, in favour of splitting Turkey into several federal states in order to give the Kurdish dominated regions more political autonomy.

On 25 October 2015, just six days before the November 2015 general election, Demir was killed in a traffic accident while travelling on a motorway through Tarsus in Mersin Province. His party had fielded candidates in 78 electoral districts for the election, while Demir had been the HAK-PAR's first-preference candidate in Diyarbakır.