She received the prize for founding the ‘Ozyegin Foundation Rural Livelihoods program’, which sought to empower women in the Diyarbakir region.

[5] Accepting her award from Front Line Defenders, Baysal described a formative moment in her childhood when she witnessed the Turkish military attack a funeral procession for the Kurdish rights activist and head of the Diyarbakir branch of the Turkish Human Rights Association, Vedat Aydın who was tortured and killed in 1991.

Human Rights Watch stated that she was detained in connection with her Tweets criticising Turkey's military operation in Afrin, Syria.

Although she was sentenced to ten months in prison, 'she was released on the condition that she not repeat the offence within five years', according to Front Line Defenders.

[12] In June 2019, Baysal was briefly arrested and then released in connection with a meeting of the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) which she had attended in 2012.