Dilek Akagün Yılmaz


Dilek Akagün Yılmaz is a Turkish politician.

Life

Dilek Akagün was born to Ali and Ümmü in Külköy village of Karahallı ilçe in Uşak Province, Turkey in 1963.
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 and the Çağdaş Yaşamı Destekleme Derneği. She is married to Fuat Yılmaz, and the mother of two.

Politics

In 1988, she joined the Republican People's Party. In the local elections held on 26 March 1989, she was elected to the municipal council of Uşak. Later, she ran for the parliament and in the general election held on 12 June 2011, she was elected to the 24th Parliament of Turkey. However, in 2013 she accused a member of the party as being spy, and she was warned by the disciplinary committee of the party. In 2015, she ran one more time for the parliamentary elections. However, she failed to succeed in the pre-election in her province.