in German parties •
Ferat Koçak, •
Sevim Dağdelen, German
politician and a member of the
Left Party (Die Linke) •
Cem Ince, German politician (The Left) •
Evrim Sommer, German politician •
Gökay Akbulut, German politician and social scientist. She is currently serving in the
Bundestag (federal parliament) as a member of
The Left Party from the German federal state of
Baden-Württemberg •
Kassem Taher Saleh, German
civil engineer and politician of the
Alliance 90/The Greens •
Kenan Engin, German-Kurdish political scientist •
Leyla Güven, Kurdish Politician •
Lamiya Haji Bashar, human rights activist. She was awarded the
Sakharov Prize jointly with Nadia Murad in 2016 •
Ali Atalan,
Kurdish-German politician of
Yazidi faith. He is a former member of the
Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia with
Die Linke in
Germany, and the
Turkish Parliament with the
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) •
Cansu Özdemir, German politician of
The Left from Hamburg. She is a member of the
Hamburg Parliament •
Serdar Yüksel, German politician of
SPD from Essen. He is since 2025 a member of the
Bundestag •
Muhterem Aras,
German politician of the
Alliance 90/The Greens party. She has been a Member of the
Landtag of Baden-Württemberg for the constituency Stuttgart I since May 2011, and
Landtagspräsidentin (speaker) since May 2016 •
Hamide Akbayir German politician •
Hüseyin Kenan Aydın, German politician and member of Die Linke.
in foreign parties or organisations •
Haji Ahmadi (Iran; grew up in Iran and lives in exile in Germany) •
Leyla İmret (grew up in Germany and lived in Turkey) •
Feleknas Uca (grew up in Germany and lives in Turkey) •
Cuneyd Zapsu ==Cinema==