Preceded by party established Nationality Turkish Constituency Van (June 2015, Nov 2015) | Succeeded by Sultan Ulusoy Party Peoples' Democratic Party | |
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Preceded by Ertuğrul Kürkçü
& Sebahat Tuncel Full Name Figen Yüksekdağ Şenoğlu Political party Socialist Party of the Oppressed
(2010–2014)
Peoples' Democratic Party
(2014–present) Similar Selahattin Demirtaş, İdris Baluken, Sırrı Süreyya Önder, Sebahat Tuncel, Pervin Buldan Profiles | ||
Figen Yüksekdağ Şenoğlu (born 1971) is the current co-leader of the left-wing Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) of Turkey as of 2014, serving alongside Selahattin Demirtaş. She was a Member of Parliament for Van since the June 2015 general election until her parliamentary membership was revoked by the courts on 21 February 2017.
Life and work
Yüksekdağ was born in Gölovası, Yumurtalık, Adana Province, into an ethnically Turkish Sunni farming family.
She was an independent parliamentary candidate for the Adana electoral district in the 2002 general election. She was involved in women's rights movements for several years before becoming the editor of the Socialist Woman magazine. While serving on the board of the Atılım newspaper, she was taken into custody in 2009 due to her political activity. She cofounded the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) shortly after in 2010 and resigned as leader in 2014 to join the HDP, with which the ESP merged later the same year. During the second ordinary congress of the HDP, she was elected the co-leader of the HDP.
