Deniz Yücel (politician)

Deniz Yücel (1977, İzmir, Turkey) is a Turkish politician and lawyer.

Biography
Deniz Yücel was born in 1977 in Izmir. His father Esen Yücel is a lawyer. He graduated from Izmir Atatürk High School in 1995 and Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Law in 2000. In 2001, he registered with the Izmir Bar Association and started working as a freelance lawyer.

Yücel joined the Republican People's Party in 1999. After the 2014 local elections in Turkey, he entered the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Assembly from Buca and became CHP group spokesperson. He was elected provincial chairman at the CHP Izmir provincial congresses held on January 7, 2018, and February 8, 2020. On December 26, 2022, he resigned as provincial chairman to run for parliament. In the 2023 general elections in Turkey, he was elected as an MP from Izmir 2nd district. On May 25, 2023, he received his deputy mandate and took office.

Personal life
Yücel is married to Gönenç Bilgen Yücel and has two children. He speaks English fluently.