Dilek Akagün Yılmaz

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Dilek Akagün Yılmaz
Member of the Grand National Assembly
In office
28 June 2011 – 23 June 2015
ConstituencyUşak (2011)
Personal details
Born
Dilek Akagün

1963 (age 58–59)
Külköy, Karahallı,
Uşak Province, Turkey
NationalityTurkish
Political partyRepublican People's Party (CHP)
Children2
Alma materDokuz Eylül University
OccupationPolitician, attorney
ReligionIslam

Dilek Akagün Yılmaz (born 1963) is a Turkish politician.

Life[]

Dilek Akagün was born to Ali and Ümmü in Külköy village of Karahallı ilçe (district) in Uşak Province, Turkey in 1963.[1]

In 1984, after completing the School of Law of the Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir, she began working as an attorney in Uşak. She is the charter member of the Uşak branch of Human Rights Association. She is also a member of Atatürkçü Düşünce Derneği (Atatürkist Thought Association) and the Çağdaş Yaşamı Destekleme Derneği (Association for the Support of Contemporary Living). She is married to Fuat Yılmaz,[2] and the mother of two.

Politics[]

In 1988, she joined the Republican People's Party (CHP). In the local elections held on 26 March 1989, she was elected to the municipal council of Uşak. She ran for parliament and in the general election held on 12 June 2011, she was elected to the 24th Parliament of Turkey. In 2013 she accused a member of the party as being spy, and was warned by the party disciplinary committee.[2] She ran for a second term in 2015, however she placed fourth in preselection denying her a place on the party list in Uşak.[3][4]

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