Keziban Yılmaz

Keziban Yılmaz is a lawyer and politician of the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) and a former mayor of Kayapinar in Diyarbakir province.

[2] As such she lamented the imprisonment of children accused of terror related charges for throwing stones or taking part in marches.

[2] In 2017, she and 249 other lawyers[4] unsuccessfully requested to visit Abullah Öcalan, the former leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in prison on Imrali island.

[7] After she assumed her post, she questioned the fact that the municipality building was transferred to the District Governor and the die Kindergarten to the Mufti.

[14] In March 2021, the state prosecutor before the court of cassation Bekir Sahin demanded a political ban of five years for her and 687 people together with the closure of the HDP.