Sebahat Tuncel (born 5 July 1975) is a Turkish politician[1] of Kurdish origin,[2] women's rights advocate, former nurse and member of the Parliament in Turkey.

She was born in Yazıhan and studied cartography and land surveying in Mersin University, before beginning her political career through the Women's Branch of the People's Democracy Party (HADEP) in 1998.

[6] But after she ran as an independent candidate within the Thousand Hopes alliance for the parliamentary elections from prison and after winning a seat in Istanbul with 93,000 votes,[7] she was released from custody in July 2007.

[14] She demands a further improvements for the cultural rights of the Kurdish population in Turkey and accused the AKP and the Kemalist Republican People's Party of stalling negotiations on the matter.

[22] In September 2020, another sentence under the controversial Article 299 of Turkey's penal code over 11 months followed for insulting the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.