Career
Bengi Yildiz is a lawyer by training, graduating from Istanbul University Law Faculty, and has worked as a journalist. He is a former President of the Batman branch of the IHD Turkish Human Rights Association (Human Rights Association). In July 2007, he stood as an independent candidate in the Turkish parliamentary elections and entered the Turkish Parliament, joining the Democratic Society Party (DTP).
He is now an Member of Parliament for Batman.
He was re-elected in the 12 June 2011 general election. On July 25, 2011 he declared that Kurds under the control of PKK/BDP would stop paying taxes to the Turkish government.
He furthermore suggested that although PKK/BDP supported Kurds want to be exempt from taxes it is still the responsibility of the Turkish Republic to invest in their infrastructure, roads, schools and pay for their public servants.