| Seher Aydar | |
| Office: | Member of the Norwegian Parliament |
| Termstart: | 2021 |
| Constituency: | Oslo |
| Birth Date: | 10 September 1989 |
| Birth Place: | Turkey |
| Party: | Red Party |
Seher Aydar (born, 10 September 1989, Turkey) is a Norwegian politician of Kurdish descent. She is a member of the Red Party and was elected to the Norwegian Parliament (Storting) in the Parliamentary Elections of 2021.[1]
Aydar was born into a family from Konya,[2] where she lived until she migrated to Norway at the age of eleven.[3] In Norway she grew up in Frederikstad.[4] She has been working at a kindergarten and was politically active from an early age[5] particularly in organizations focusing on women's and Kurdish rights.
She has taken a leading role within the Red Party, before in the term between 2017 and 2021, she became a substitute member of the Norwegian Parliament for Oslo.[6] Additionally, she advised her party in the departments health and education.[7] She has been supportive of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party in Turkey and also the developments of the Kurdish rights in Syria under the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.[8] [9] In September 2021, she was elected to the Norwegian Parliament representing the Red party.