[4] After graduating from high school in Hamburg, Akbulut studied political sciences, sociology and public law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg from October 2003 until September 2008.

[1] From 2016 -2017 she worked as a speaker for migration and education at the political foundation Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart.

[citation needed] Moreover she is committed to the work with and for refugees and serves as a member on the board of the refugees project "Mannheim sagt JA Flüchtlingshilfe" (Mannheim says yes), the network of Kurdish Academics and Cevi, the Kurdish Women's network.

She represents the Left faction in the German-Turkish as well as in the German-Greek Parliamentary Group of the German Parliament.

In 2017 the press reported that Akbulut was under observation of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution because of her pro-Kurdish activism.

She was accused of having been in contact with Kurdish organizations, who are allegedly associated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

[8] Akbulut expressed criticism against Wagenknecht's controversial statements on the topics of migration and her engagement for her private campaign Aufstehen.