Sedef Çakmak

Sedef Çakmak (born 9 June 1982) is a Turkish politician and LGBT rights activist. She was the first openly homosexual person to be elected into office in Turkey.

Career She grew up in Ankara.

She has been active in the Turkish LGBT movement since the 2000s. In 2004, she contacted Lambda Istanbul to write a paper for university about LGBT issues in Turkey and through being in contact with other LGBT people, she became aware of her own lesbian identity. From 2011 to 2013, she co-founded and was the chair of the organisation SPoD LGBTI.