Ayşe Nur Bahçekapılı was born on 26 November 1954 in the district of Maçka, Trabzon Province.

She served as a member of the executive board of the Istanbul Bar Association and also as their General Secretary.

She was a member of the Contemporary Jurists Association and also served as the Istanbul representative of the Social Democrat Action Platform Women's legal education workshop.

[3] Bahçekapılı first became a Deputy Speaker of the Grand National Assembly on 2 July 2013, halfway through the course of the 24th Parliament.

Serving under Speaker Cemil Çiçek, she served alongside AKP colleague Sadık Yakut, the Republican People's Party (CHP) MP Güldal Mumcu and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) MP Meral Akşener.