Sevilay Çelenk Özen

Between 2007 and 2009, she was a lecturer and visiting scholar at the Baltic Film and Media School of the Tallinn University in Estonia.^[2] Later, she was a member of the faculty staff of the Department of Communications in the Ankara University.^[2] In this capacity, she prepared a report on the death of a protester by a police officer in 2013 on request from the prosecution.^[4] In 2012, she was the President of the Ankara University Political Science alumni Association.^[5] She has published a variety of books on media and communications and is a Honorary Adjunct Research Professor at the Carleton University, Canada.^[2]

She joined the Academics for Peace and was a signatory of their petition "We will not be a party to this crime!" in early 2016.^[6][7] A week before she signed the petition, she applied for a full professorship at the Ankara University, but was denied for signing the petition.^[8] Eventually she was dismissed from the Ankara University on the 6 January 2017 for supporting terrorism.^[8] Following she provided students with lectures in a park in Ankara.^[9][10] In 2019, she was acquitted of terror propaganda from the Constitutional Court, but was not reinstated at the Ankara University due to concerns of the State of Emergency Commission.^[7] In the parliamentary elections of May 2023, she was elected into the Grand National Assembly of Turkey representing Diyarbakir for the YSP.^[11]