Parwin Buldan was born on November 6, 1967 in Jolemerg, North Kurdistan. She graduated from high school. According to local tradition, she married her cousin Savaş Buldan at the age of
They moved to Istanbul in 1990 because of her husband's business, where she continued to work in business and owned a hotel. They had a son named Nechirvan in Istanbul, but in 1993 the family's life changed completely.
When then-Prime Minister Tanso Çiller announced in 1993 that he had a list of businessmen and wealthy people who supported the PKK, threats against Parwin Buldan's husband Savaş Buldan began. As a result, on June 2, 1994, Savaş and two friends, Adnan Yıldırım and Hacı Karia, were arrested by eight policemen while leaving their workplace.
Two days after their arrest, the bodies of Savaş and his two friends were found on Bulu Road near the Malen River, with signs of torture, mutilation and skull fractures. At the time, it was considered one of the most horrific murders in Turkey. That same day, Parwin Buldan gave birth to another child in the hospital, whom they named Zalal.
Parwin Buldan's life has since become directly involved in politics. She began working with the HDP, then the legal party of the Kurds in North Kurdistan.
She was also constantly active with the relatives of those arrested, tortured and disappeared. In 2001, she founded an organization called Mag Der to support the families of missing persons, but it was later closed down by the Turkish government.
Parwin Buldan later founded Yakay Deri, which became the basis for the establishment of Saturday Mothers Organisation. That is, mothers of people whose children have gone missing, or been killed in mysterious ways. Saturday Mothers gather in Istanbul's Galatasaray Square every Saturday to post pictures of their murdered and missing children, each time telling the story of one of them, who was killed by unknown killers. These activities gradually made Parvin Buldan a well-known figure in Turkey.
After the closure of the HDP by the Turkish government, she became a member of the DHP, which had been established in place of the HDP.
For her efforts for peace, she was selected and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 by the Swiss Women's Initiative among 1,000 other women activists.
In July 2007, as one of the candidates of Thousand Hopes, she ran as an independent candidate with the support of the DTP and won. She became the first woman elected to the Turkish parliament by the people of North Kurdistan. In 2008, she was arrested by the police for lighting a Newroz bonfire, giving a speech and supporting Ocalan.
When the Democratic Society Party (DTP) was shut down by the Turkish government. She joined the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) where she continued her work.
Parwin Buldan won the June 12, 2011 elections again and entered the Turkish parliament. She became one of the 24 Kurdish deputies in the Turkish parliament and also became the head of the Kurdish deputies faction in the parliament.
In 2013, she was appointed by DBP as the party's deputy co-chairman and a member of the peace talks delegation. In Newroz 2013, she read Ocalan's message for peace in Kurdish to nearly 2 million people who attended that year's Newroz celebrations in Amed.
She visited Qandil and Europe several times and held meetings with many peace centers, peace activists and human rights defenders.
On February 11, 2018, she was elected as the new co-chairman of the party at its third ordinary congress.[1]