Yildiz Akdogan

Yildiz Akdogan (born 29 April 1973) is a Turkish-Danish politician serving as a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats since 25 May 2025, having previously served from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2014 to 2019. Along with Özlem Cekic, she was one of the first female immigrant politicians to be elected to the Folketing.

Background Akdogan was born in Turkey and was raised by her paternal grandparents for the first five-and-a-half years of her life. Her mother moved to Esbjerg in Denmark shortly after her birth and her father was called up to do military service in Turkey. The family were reunited in 1979, when Akdogan and her father moved to Denmark.

Prior to being elected to the Folketing, Akdogan received an MSc in political science from Aarhus University in 2006. She had previously worked as a journalist for the Danish-Turkish newspaper Haber. She has published widely on social integration and women's rights. Akdogan is a board member and spokesperson for the Democratic Muslims, a network set up in the wake of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy.

After Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil resigned her seat to run for Lord Mayor of Copenhagen in the 2025 local elections, Akdogan returned to the Folketing on 25 May 2025 as her substitute.