Dilek Öcalan (born 3 October 1987)[1] is a Kurdish politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) who served as a Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Şanlıurfa, Turkey, from 2015 to 2018.

She is the niece of Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant organisation that has been in conflict with the Turkish Armed Forces since the 1980s, making both her candidacy and election to the Grand National Assembly controversial.

[2] On 23 December 2013, she visited her uncle at İmralı prison and became known to the media after she gave a press statement detailing the conversation between them.

[3] Öcalan has been imprisoned since 1999, serving a sentence of aggravated life imprisonment under charges of founding and leading Kurdistan Workers' Party Öcalan first entered politics in 2012, a year before meeting her uncle on the Island of İmralı.

[12] On 1 March 2018 she was sentenced to two years and six months in prison for spreading terror propaganda during a speech she held at a funeral.