Ayla Akat Ata (born 16 February 1976) is a Kurdish[1] lawyer and former member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP).
Since graduating from the Faculty of Law at Dicle University in Diyarbakır, she has been working as a lawyer.
[8] In January 2013 she was involved in the peace process between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish Government and met with Abdullah Öcalan in İmralı prison together with Ahmet Türk.
[11] In September 2007, she and Aysel Tuğluk were charged with “conducting propaganda for an outlawed organization” and “aiding and abetting a terrorist organization.”[12] On the 26 October 2016, she was detained and later arrested while attending a protest against the dismissal of the Co-Mayors Gültan Kışanak and Fırat Anlı[13] and accused of "managing a terrorist organization"[14] also due to her activities in the Democratic Society Congress (DTK).
[15][13] She was re-arrested in February 2018 for a speech she gave in relation of Kamber Moroç who had died as Turkish soldiers opened fire on a bus.