Cansu Özdemir

Cansu Özdemir (born 8 September 1988) is a German politician of The Left from Hamburg. She is a member of the Bundestag.

Life Özdemir was born in Hamburg to Kurdish parents in 1988. After she received her Abitur from Kieler Straße Business School in 2009, she studied cultural anthropology

Political career In 2009, Özdemir also became a member of The Left and in 2011 she entered the Hamburg Parliament of which she has been a member ever since.

She is known for her support for the legalization of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which is banned in Germany. Özdemir is also a strong critic of the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and the foreign policy of Germany regarding Turkey. and is also critical of the Syrian civil war.

In the 2021 German federal election, she unsuccessfully contested the constituency of Hamburg-Altona. In the 2025 German federal election, she was placed second on her party's state list for Hamburg and was elected to the Bundestag.