Political career
Aydeniz was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey representing the HDP for Diyarbakır in the Parliamentary Election in June 2018. [5] On 30 November 2019,she assumed as a Co-Chair of HDPs sister-party,the DBP,following which she left the HDP. [2] With her membership of the DBP,the party became the tenth party represented in the Turkish parliament. [2] As an MP she is a proponent of a political solution to the Kurdish-Turkish conflict and has said that the Turkish opposition should take a more constructive approach to Kurdish demands in relation to Kurdish language and culture. [6] She rarely goes to Ankara,saying that little can be achieved there:the questions on the human rights situation in Turkish Kurdistan that are submitted to parliament seldom meet with an answer. [7]
In the 2023 Turkish parliamentary election she was elected in Mardin.
Legal prosecution
After a march in support of Abdullah Öcalan,the leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Kadıköy, [8] she punched a police officer while the officer was only standing. [9] After that she was accused of having pushed a police officer and taking part in a march without permission following which a motion was prepared to end her legislative immunity. [10]
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