After earning his B.A. in Sociology from Boğaziçi University, Hisyar Ozsoy carried out graduate studies in cultural anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in 2004 and 2010, respectively. Between 2011 and 2015, Mr Ozsoy worked as an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Michigan-Flint, teaching courses in political sociology, political anthropology, social theory as well as courses on Middle Eastern cultures, histories and politics. Mr. Ozsoy was elected to the Turkish parliament on June 7th, 2015. Between February 2016 and February 2020 he served as deputy chair of HDP in charge of foreign affairs department. He has been a deputy of Diyarbakir since June 2018. Still serving as HDP’s co-spokesperson for foreign affairs, he is simultaneously a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE PA).