Bozkurt joined the Green Party (Alliance 90/The Greens) in 2009 while studying . In the Berlin state association, she is one of two volunteer anti-discrimination officers, and in the Berlin district of
Mitte, she is the spokesperson for the working group on anti-racism and diversity. she did not receive a place on the state list. She won the constituency with 29.8 percent of the
first-preference votes, marking the first time the Greens had won. She was re-elected in the
2023 Berlin state election. In the Berlin House of Representatives, she is her parliamentary group's spokesperson for industry and the digital economy, as well as spokesperson for anti-discrimination. She is also a member of the Committee on Integration, Women and Equality, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination, and a member of the Committee on Economic Affairs, Energy and Public Enterprises.
Interjection scandal In June 2024, during a question period in the
Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin regarding the
knife attack in Mannheim on May 31, 2024, and its fatality, Interior Senator
Iris Spranger began a sentence with "The terrible death in Mannheim shows us, of course…", Bozkurt responded with the interjection, intended as a joke, "Mannheim is dead?". The co-chairs of the Green Party parliamentary group,
Werner Graf and
Bettina Jarasch, the federal chair of the Green Party,
Omid Nouripour , and finally Bozkurt himself, subsequently issued public apologies for the "inappropriate," "indecent," and "disrespectful" behavior. == External links ==