Dilan Yeşilgöz

**Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius** (; born 18 June 1977) is a Dutch politician who has been the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands since 2026. She is the Leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy since 2023.

She was the Minister of Justice and Security from 2022 to 2024. She is a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). She was a member of the House of Representatives from 2017 to 2021. In 2026, she became Minister of Defence.

## Leader of the VVD

On 12 July 2023, two days after Mark Rutte's resignation, Yeşilgöz-Zegerius announced her candidacy to become the next Leader of the VVD. The next day, the party board formally nominated her for the position.

Yeşilgöz-Zegerius led the VVD in the 2023 and 2025 Dutch general elections, failing to win a majority of seats in the House of Representatives both times. After the 2023 election, she led the VVD in the political coalition that helped create the Dick Schoof cabinet.

## Personal life

Yeşilgöz-Zegerius was born in Ankara, Turkey. She emigrated to the Netherlands as a child. Her mother and father are Kurds. Her parents sought asylum in the Netherlands in 1980, after the 1980 coup.

She is an atheist. She married René Zegerius, a Jewish Dutch man, in 2013.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Dilan Yeşilgöz
- **image**: Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, October 2022.jpg
- **caption**: Yeşilgöz in 2022
- **office**: Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
- **term start**: 23 February 2026
- **primeminister**: Rob Jetten
- **alongside**: Bart van den Brink
- **predecessor**: Sophie Hermans
- **office1**: Minister of Defence (Netherlands), Minister of Defence
- **term start1**: 23 February 2026
- **primeminister1**: Rob Jetten
- **predecessor1**: Ruben Brekelmans
- **office2**: Leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
- **term start2**: 14 August 2023
- **predecessor2**: Mark Rutte
- **office3**: List of Ministers of Justice of the Netherlands, Minister of Justice and Security
- **primeminister3**: Mark Rutte
- **term start3**: 10 January 2022
- **term end3**: 2 July 2024
- **predecessor3**: Ferdinand Grapperhaus
- **successor3**: David van Weel
- **office4**: List of Ministers of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands, State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
- **primeminister4**: Mark Rutte
- **alongside4**: Mona Keijzer (2021)
- **term start4**: 25 May 2021
- **term end4**: 10 January 2022
- **predecessor4**: Martijn van Dam (2017)
- **successor4**: Hans Vijlbrief
- **office5**: Member of the House of Representatives (Netherlands), House of Representatives
- **term start5**: 6 December 2023
- **term start6**: 23 March 2017
- **term end6**: 3 September 2021
- **office7**: Member of the Government of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Municipal Council
- **term start7**: 19 March 2014
- **term end7**: 23 March 2017
- **birth place**: Ankara, Turkey
- **party**: People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, VVD (2009–present)
- **alma mater**: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- **signature**: Signature of Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius.svg
- **otherparty**: Socialist Party (Netherlands), SP (1999–2009)