Özlem Alev Demirel-Böhlke (born 10 March 1984)[1] is a Turkish-born German politician of Kurdish descent[2] who is currently a serving representative of the party The Left as a Member of the European Parliament.

[3] She attended primary and secondary education in Bielefeld and Cologne,[4] and graduated from high school in 2004. she began to study political sciences and history at the University of Bonn.

[1] She has interested herself early on in politics and with 15 years she became involved in the youth section of the Democratic Workers Union (DIDF).

[5] In the European Parliament she is both a vice chair of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence and the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee[9] On 2 March 2022, she was one of 13 MEPs who voted against a resolution condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine and calling for the arming of Ukraine.

[citation needed] Demirel said the resolution would only worsen the situation and that "I think it is cynical to abuse the suffering of the Ukrainians for something like this.