Cansu Özdemir (born 8 September 1988) is a German politician of The Left from Hamburg. She is a member of the Hamburg Parliament.^[1]

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Özdemir was born in Hamburg to Kurdish parents in 1988.^[2] After she received her Abitur from Kieler Straße Business School^[3] in 2009, she studied cultural anthropology^[3] and politics at the University of Hamburg.^[4]

In 2009, Özdemir also became a member of The Left and in 2011 she entered the Hamburg Parliament^[5] of which she has been a member ever since.^[4] Özdemir led The Left in the 2020 Hamburg state election.^[6]

She is known for her support for the legalization of the Kurdistan Workers' Party,^[7] which is banned in Germany. Özdemir is also a strong critic of the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and the foreign policy of Germany regarding Turkey.^[6] She called Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a "dictator" in an interview.,^[8] and is also critical of the Syrian civil war.

She was an unsuccessful candidate for the Bundestag in the 2021 German federal election. She contested the constituency of Hamburg-Altona.