Özlem Sara Cekic (born 7 May 1976) is a Danish-Kurdish former politician and member of parliament for the Socialist People's Party (SF),[1] who is now[as of?]

In 2018 she was the second Dane ever to be invited to give a TED talk in New York on her invention - Dialogue Coffee - a new way of meeting and communicating among people, including those who might disagree.

Born in Ankara, Turkey, from a Kurdish background she arrived in Denmark as a 10-year old child via several other countries, including Finland, and grew up in Copenhagen's Vesterbro neighborhood.

She also set up the Diversity Network which worked to highlight the discrimination that Danes with a different ethnic background received in the Danish Health Service.

She was also a member of the Danish delegation to the European Parliament from 2013-2015 In 2012 Çekiç decided to vote against the tax reform proposed by her own party in collaboration with the Social Democrats.

After losing her seat in 2015 she started looking into how she could convert the huge personal support she had to better use outside parliament and despite being offered a "safe" seat to return to parliament by the party, she decided that her new work building bridges between people and various groups of people was more important and rewarding, so she declined the offer and left party politics for good.

In March 2017 she also left SF as a member after the party decided to support a proposal closing the door completely for unaccompanied refugee children.

[5] In the 2015 Danish general elections the Socialist People's Party (SF) lost 9 of its 16 seats in parliament and Cekic was not re-elected.