Tuğba Hezer Öztürk (born 4 October 1989, Erciş, Turkey[1]) is a Kurdish politician of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and a former Member of the Grand National Assembly for of Van.
[2] She was elected to the Turkish Parliament as a deputy for the province of Van in June 2015[3] and re-elected in November 2015[4] as the youngest member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
[5] On 5 June 2017, the Turkish interior ministry announced that 130 people who are outside the country while being suspected of militant links will lose their citizenship unless they return to Turkey within three months and meet government standards.
[13] From her party, she has been given the task to raise awareness from European institutions and politicians towards the human rights violations in south east Anatolia.
[14] On the 17 March 2021, the State Prosecutor at the Court of Cassation of Turkey Bekir Şahin filed a lawsuit at the Constitutional Court demanding for her and 686 other HDP politicians a five-year ban to engage in Turkish politics together with a closure of the HDP due to their alleged organizational links with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).