Background
Yüksekdağ was born in Gölovası, Yumurtalık, Adana Province, into an ethnically Turkish Sunni farming family.
Yüksekdağ was born in Gölovası, Yumurtalık, Adana Province, into an ethnically Turkish Sunni farming family.
While serving on the board of the Atılım newspaper, she was taken into custody in 2009 due to her political activity. She cofounded the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (Education Support Professionals) shortly after in 2010 and resigned as leader in 2014 to join the HDP, with which the Education Support Professionals merged later the same year. During the second ordinary congress of the HDP, she was elected the co-leader of the HDP.
She was involved in women"s rights movements for several years before becoming the editor of the Socialist Woman magazine.
She was an independent parliamentary candidate for the Adana electoral district in the 2002 general election.