Yildiz Akdogan (born 29 April 1973) is a Turkish-Danish politician, who was a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2014 to 2019.
[1][2] Akdogan was born in Turkey and was raised by her paternal grandparents for the first five-and-a-half years of her life.
Her mother moved to Esbjerg in Denmark shortly after her birth and her father was called up to do military service in Turkey.
[3] Prior to being elected to the Folketing, Akdogan received an MSc in political science from Aarhus University in 2006.
Akdogan is a board member and spokesperson for the Democratic Muslims, a network set up in the wake of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy.