[2] In September 2019, she was sentenced to 9 years and 8 months imprisonment for insulting the president and terrorism related charges[3][4] but after an appeal by the CHP, the Court of Cassation reduced her sentence to over 4 years and 11 months in May 2022.

[2] The Turkish government under President Tayyip Erdoğan's administration put her on trial for tweeting about the Armenian genocide and assassinations of the three female members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Paris.

[6][7] Kaftancıoğlu was born in the village of Çiftlik Sarıca, Mesudiye, Ordu, the second child in her family.

Between 2011 and 2012, she served as the Vice President of the Republican People's Party (CHP) in Istanbul.

[10] After Kaftancıoğlu became the CHP's Istanbul Provincial President, an investigation was opened about her various posts on social media.

[2] When she was working as an emergency doctor at the Suşehri Public Hospital, she met Dr. Ali Naki Kaftancıoğlu.