Sevilay Çelenk Özen

Sevilay Çelenk Özen (born 1967, Maden, Turkey) is an academic and politician, an Academic for Peace and a member of the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party). Since June 2023, she is a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey representing Diyarbakir for the DEM Party. Before she was a staff member of the Ankara University.

Early life and education She was born in Maden in 1967, the hometown from her mother. Shortly after the family moved to Diyarbakir, the hometown from her father. In 2012, she was the President of the Ankara University Political Science alumni Association. She has published a variety of books on media and communications and is an Honorary Adjunct Research Professor at the Carleton University, Canada. A week before she signed the petition, she applied for a full professorship at the Ankara University, but was denied for signing the petition. Eventually she was dismissed from the Ankara University on the 6 January 2017 for supporting terrorism. In 2019, she was acquitted of terror propaganda from the Constitutional Court, but was not reinstated at the Ankara University due to concerns of the State of Emergency Commission.