Career in state politics Bayram started her political career by joining the
Social Democratic Party in 1999. In 2006 she was elected to the
House of Representatives of Berlin in the district of Berlin-Friedrichshain, winning 28% of the vote in the district. She was a spokesperson for the SPD parliamentary caucus and a member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Home Affairs, Security and Order, as well as the Committee on Economic Affairs, Technology and Women. In May 2009, she defected from the SPD and joined the Alliance 90/The Greens in the House of Representatives of Berlin. She was also a member of the Committee for Integration, Labor, Vocational Training and Social Affairs as well as the Committee on Home Affairs, Security and Order and the Committee on Legal Affairs, Constitutional Affairs, Consumer Protection and Anti-Discrimination. Her political priorities were labor market policy, family policy, and domestic and legal policy. At a constituency meeting on 11 March 2017, she was nominated as the Green candidate for the
Berlin-Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg – Prenzlauer Berg East electoral district for the
2017 German federal election. During the federal Alliance 90/The Greens convention in Berlin from 16 to 18 June 2017, Bayram was introduced to a wider national audience. In an introductory speech, Bayram sharply criticized the party's lead candidates
Katrin Göring-Eckardt and
Cem Özdemir. In the September federal election, Bayram was directly elected to the Berlin-Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg – Prenzlauer Berg East electoral district with 26.3% of the vote. As with her predecessor in the district, Ströbele, Bayram was the only Alliance 90/The Greens member of Bundestag to be directly elected and not from the party list. In parliament, Bayram was a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection. In addition, she served on the parliamentary body in charge of appointing judges to the Highest Courts of Justice, namely the
Federal Court of Justice (BGH), the
Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG), the
Federal Fiscal Court (BFH), the
Federal Labour Court (BAG), and the
Federal Social Court (BSG). In addition to her committee assignments, Bayram served as deputy chairwoman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the Maghreb States. From 2022, she was also part of the German delegation to the
Parliamentary Assembly of the
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. In October 2024, Bayram announced that she would not stand in the
2025 federal elections but instead resign from national politics by the end of the parliamentary term. Bayram decided against running for office in the 2025 federal election out of dissatisfaction with her party's course. She decided against running, "among other things because it is becoming less and less clear to me what the Alliance 90/The Greens party actually stands for. ...In this respect, I can no longer explain to people what we stand for or whether they can trust us" she wrote. In March 2025, Bayram was the only Green in the Bundestag to vote against
Friedrich Merz's constitutional amendment to increase military spending. == Political stances ==