In the general elections on 7 June 2015 and 1 November 2015 she was elected a the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, both times representing the HDP for Diyarbakir. Turkish press reports write that she is the first ever Yazidi member of the Assembly along with Ali Atalan. In May 2016, her parliamentary immunity was lifted, which was condemned by several European politicians. She was re-elected in the Parliamentary Elections on 24 June 2018. Political positions Kurdish politics She was a member of the MP delegation in march to Cizre during the Curfew of Cizre in 2015. She is a supporter of the use of the Kurdish language, and opposes the prohibition of theater plays, events in the Kurdish language and the detention of people who teach in Kurdish language. She supports the co-chair system implemented in the municipalities governed by the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) and condemns the fact that the state appointed trustees assumed as acting mayors instead of the elected mayors of the BDP. Foreign politics She is a member of the EU-Turkey partner delegation for Turkey and the co-spokesperson for foreign relations of the HDP. She supports the autonomous Government in Syrian Kurdistan led by the Democratic Union Party (PYD). She is also grateful to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) for their defense of the Yazidi against the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq. Legal prosecution In 2017 she was prosecuted for spreading terror propaganda. The State Prosecutor at the Court of Cassation in Turkey Bekir Şahin filed a lawsuit before the Constitutional Court on the 17 March 2021, demanding for Uca and 686 other HDP politicians a five-year ban for political activities. The lawsuit was filed together with a request for the HDP to be shut down due to the parties alleged organizational links with the PKK. Personal life She is prepared to be detained in any moment and keeps a packed suitcase ready with her belongings in the case of an arrest. See also Yazidis in Turkey References External links Official website 1976 births 20th-century women MEPs for Germany 21st-century women MEPs for Germany Deputies of Diyarbakır German people of Kurdish descent German Yazidis 21st-century Kurdish women politicians Living people Members of the 25th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 26th Parliament of Turkey Members of the 27th Parliament of Turkey MEPs for Germany 1999–2004 MEPs for Germany 2004–2009 People from Celle Peoples' Democratic Party