Nilüfer Elik Yılmaz

Nilüfer Elik Yılmaz (born 1962, Mardin, Turkey) is a Kurdish politician and a former member of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and Mayor of Kiziltepe for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).

Education Nilüfer Elik Yılmaz received her primary and secondary education and attended high school in Kiziltepe. Following, she began to study economics at the Anadolu University in Eskisehir, but did not graduate. During her tenure, the municipality supported the local football club. She was dismissed from office in November 2019 The ministry of the interior replaced her with the state appointed trustee Hüseyin Cam, who assumed as an acting mayor in her stead. The same months, she was arrested and imprisoned in prison in Mardin. On the 17 March 2021, the state prosecutor Bekir Şahin demanded for her and 686 other HDP politicians a five-year ban to a political activity together with a closure of the HDP due to organizational links with the PKK.