Figen Yüksekdağ

Figen Yüksekdağ MP
Chairwoman of the Peoples' Democratic Party
In office 22 June 2014 – 9 March 2017 Serving with Selahattin Demirtaş
Preceded by	Ertuğrul Kürkçü & Sebahat Tuncel
Succeeded by	None
Member of the Grand National Assembly
In office 7 June 2015 – 21 February 2017
Constituency	Van (June 2015, Nov 2015)
Leader of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed
In office 29 January 2010 – 7 September 2014
Preceded by	party established
Succeeded by	Sultan Ulusoy
Personal details
Born	Figen Yüksekdağ Şenoğlu 1971 Adana, Turkey
Political party	Socialist Party of the Oppressed (2010–2014) Peoples' Democratic Party (2014–present)

Figen Yüksekdağ Şenoğlu (born 1971) was a former co-leader of the left-wing Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) of Turkey from 2014 to 2017, 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 She was a Member of Parliament for Van since the June 2015 general election until her parliamentary membership was revoked by the courts on 21 February 2017. Her party membership and therefore her co-leadership position were revoked by the courts on 9 March 2017 following a six-year prison sentence for distributing terrorist propaganda.

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.

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