Dilek Akagün Yılmaz (born 1963) is a Turkish

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

Life

Dilek Akagün was born to Ali and Ümmü in Külköy village of Karahallı

ilçe The 81 provinces of Turkey are divided into 973 districts (''ilçeler''; sing. ''ilçe''). In the early Turkish Republic and in the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding unit was the ''kaza''. Most provinces bear the same name as their respectiv ...

(district) in Uşak Province, Turkey in 1963. In 1984, after completing the School of Law of the

Dokuz Eylül University Dokuz Eylül University ( tr, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi) (DEÜ) is a university in İzmir, Turkey. It was founded in 1982 and is organized in 15 faculties. DEU is the first university which applied the problem-based learning method in Turkey, ...

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban agglo ...

, she began working as an attorney in

Uşak Uşak (; el, Ουσάκειον, Ousakeion) is a city in the interior part of the Aegean Region of Turkey. The city has a population of 500,000 (2016 census) and is the capital of Uşak Province. Uşak city is situated at a distance of from İ ...

. She is the charter member of the Uşak branch of

Human Rights Association The Human Rights Association ( tr, İnsan Hakları Derneği, İHD) is an NGO for advancing Human rights in Turkey, founded in 1986 and headquartered in Ankara. Establishment The İHD's origins can be traced to the victims of the purges in the ...

. 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, and the mother of two.

Politics

In 1988, she joined the

Republican People's Party The Republican People's Party ( tr, Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, , acronymized as CHP ) is a Kemalist and social-democratic political party in Turkey which currently stands as the main opposition party. It is also the oldest political party ...

(CHP). In the local elections held on 26 March 1989, she was elected to the municipal council of

. 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.Memurlar page
/ref> She ran for a second term in 2015, however she placed fourth in preselection denying her a place on the party list in Uşak.T24 CHP'li Dilek Akagün Yılmaz ön seçime takıldı
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Akagun Yilmaz, Dilek Living people 1963 births People from Karahallı Dokuz Eylül University alumni Turkish women lawyers 21st-century Turkish women politicians Republican People's Party (Turkey) politicians Members of the 24th Parliament of Turkey 20th-century Turkish lawyers 21st-century Turkish lawyers