[3][4] Edibe Sözen graduated from Marmara University,[5] Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of International Relations with a BSc degree in 1982.
[7] In 2006, Edibe Sözen suspended her academic career, and joined the ruling social conservative Justice and Development Party (AKP).
It would ban entry of underaged into restaurants after 22:00 hours and youth's visit of internet cafés, provide closure of nightclubs at midnight, establishment of a worship place in all schools and keeping record for buyers of pornographic publication.
[12] The Constitutional Court of Turkey threatened with closure of the AKP due to offending secularity, and sanctioned with cutting of financial aids by the state.
[8] In September 2013, Sözen announced her candidature in the 2014 local elections for the mayorship of Maltepe district in Istanbul Province.