Sibel Yiğitalp

In the Parliamentary Elections of June 2015 she was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey representing Diyarbakir for the HDP.^[2] She was re-elected in the snap elections in November 2015.^[3]

As an MP she defended the rights of the Kurds during the curfews in 2016^[4] demanding answers to the imposition of curfews in the Diyarbakir province^[5] and attempted to visit the by a curfew affected locality of Silvan together with the Diyarbakir Bar Association.^[6] She also opposed the dismissal of elected Kurdish Mayors.^[7]

In August 2017, a state prosecutor demanded that her parliamentary immunity be removed.^[8] In April 2018, another investigation into the lifting of her parliamentary immunity was initiated.^[9] In January 2019, Yigitalp was accused of terror related charges for which the prosecution demanded between 10 and 26 years imprisonment.^[10][11] She left Turkey for Germany, from where received support from the Die Linke.^[12] The State Prosecutor at the Court of Cassation in Turkey Bekir Şahin filed a lawsuit before the Constitutional Court on the 17 March 2021, demanding for Yiğitalp and 686 other HDP politicians a five-year ban for political activities in Turkey.^[13] The lawsuit was filed jointly with a request for the HDP to be shut down due to the parties alleged organizational links with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).^[14][13]

She is married and has two children.^[1]