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Ms Zeynep YILDIZ (Türkiye, NR)

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Representative
Deputy
AK Party

Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi (TBMM)
TR - 06543 - ANKARA
Türkiye

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2026 , 2025 , 2024 , 2023 , 2022

Declarations of interest regarding election observations (if applicable)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Members not belonging to a Political Group since 01/07/2019
  • Member: Free Democrats Group from 08/10/2018 to 30/06/2019

In the Assembly

  • since 09/10/2023 Representative - Türkiye
  • from 08/10/2018 to 08/10/2023 Substitute - Türkiye

In the committee(s) and sub-committee(s)

  • Youth Rapporteur: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 16/03/2026)
  • Full Member: Special Committee on the New Democratic Pact (since 26/01/2026)
  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 09/10/2023)
  • Full Member: Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (since 09/10/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (since 12/10/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 09/10/2023 to 26/01/2026)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (since 09/10/2023)
  • Alternate of Mr Murat Cahid CINGI (Full Member): Committee on Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation (since 20/04/2026)
  • Alternate of Mr Abdurrahman BABACAN (Full Member): Committee on Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation (from 09/12/2025 to 19/04/2026)
  • Alternate of Ms Sena Nur ÇELİK KANAT (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 09/10/2023)
  • Alternate of Mr Abdurrahman BABACAN (Full Member): (Former) Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 09/10/2023 to 08/12/2025)
  • Alternate of Mr Mehmet Mehdi EKER (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 24/01/2022 to 08/10/2023)
  • Alternate of Mr Yıldırım Tuğrul TÜRKEŞ (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 30/09/2019 to 14/09/2020)
  • Alternate of Mr Yıldırım Tuğrul TÜRKEŞ (Full Member): (Former) Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 30/09/2019 to 14/09/2020)
  • Alternate of Mr Yıldırım Tuğrul TÜRKEŞ (Full Member): (Former) Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 24/01/2022 to 08/10/2023)

Interventions

Last speeches

26/06/2026 | 11:12:57 Thank you, Madam Chair. I will be talking about Article 1 of the Statute of the Council of Europe and the feeling of double standardisation for me. Dear Chair, Dear colleagues, Article 1 of the Statute of the Council of Europe states that our primary aim is to achieve greater unity among the member states. However, the current climate within our Parliamentary Assembly unfairly targets certain members while leaving others unquestioned. The Council's rules must apply equally to everyone. I must... 25/06/2026 | 17:08:27 Thank you, Madam Chair. Dear colleagues, Unfortunately, I must say that there are fundamental problems with this report. First of all, the report assumes from the outset that certain governments are engaged in transnational oppression without providing a sufficiently clear definition of the term, while using one-sided sources which are being used as a tool for disinformation for a specific political agenda. While selecting the sources of the reports, our Assembly's institutional identity... 25/06/2026 | 16:12:14 Thank you, dear Chair, Dear colleagues, Access to justice is a fundamental right, starting with the right to life. The ongoing genocide in Gaza directly targets the right to life, the ultimate priority that enables the exercise of all other rights. Under the Geneva Convention IV, women are entitled to special protection. Yet international mechanisms have failed, leaving the global community completely paralysed to protect the women of Gaza. As United Nations Women (UNW) Executive Director... 24/06/2026 | 20:18:09 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2)   Dear Chair, Dear Colleagues, I congratulate the rapporteur on this crucial report, which offers vital insights into securing the fundamental right to food. The destruction of agricultural capacities noted in the report is a stark reality on global level. On one hand agriculture modernises, on the other hand, in practice, monopolies are consolidating. And that situation causes high volatility on global food access. Seed conglomerates weaken... 23/06/2026 | 13:07:13 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Dear Chair, Dear Colleagues, This debate exposes this chamber’s internal contradictions once again. First, the very title of this debate has already formed an opinion itself. Are we here for a genuine discussion to reach an objective conclusion? Or are we simply in an echo chamber, imposing a predetermined political prejudice? And when it comes to the functioning of the law, we must primarily discuss this Assembly's dysfunction on Israel...

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