Korkmaz became a member of the Bundestag in the
2017 German federal election. In parliament, she was a member of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure and the Digital Agenda Committee. Korkmaz
lost her seat in the
2021 German federal election. In the negotiations to form a so-called
traffic light coalition of the SPD, the
Green Party and the
Free Democrats (FDP) following the
2021 German elections, she was nonetheless part of her party's delegation in the working group on digital innovation and infrastructure, co-chaired by
Jens Zimmermann,
Malte Spitz and
Andreas Pinkwart. ==Life after politics==