She was elected for Left Party (die Linke) and switched in October 2023 to Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht.

Born in Duisburg to Kurdish immigrants of the Alevi faith from Erzincan,[1][2] Sevim Dağdelen finished high school in 1997.

[3] She worked for the left-wing Turkish newspaper Evrensel and German publications Tatsachen and Junge Stimme and has continued membership in the worker unions.

Turks started a social media campaign to end their membership in the workers union.

Dağdelen published a new book, titled NATO: A Reckoning with the Atlantic Alliance, in July 2024, discussing it with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!

[13] Dağdelen criticized European Union commission president Ursula von der Leyen's speech in early 2023 that called for a new EU policy towards China, saying that "the EU and its member states want to challenge the emerging power China, including military means.