Şerdil Dara Odabaşı, who was born in Şanlıurfa in 1973, completed his primary and middle education in Ankara. He graduated from Ankara Trial High School. He grew up in a Republican culture that started with the late Mahmut Odabaşı, CHP Deputy for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th terms and Administrative Treasurer of the Assembly, and shaped the whole family. He is the fourth generation member of the Odabaşı family, including deputies and mayors, who actively participated in the War of Independence, and was awarded the Medal of Independence.
Odabaşı, who entered the Istanbul University Faculty of Law in 1992, started to be engaged in politics in those years. At that time, when university students could not become party members, he carried out the election and chairmanship of Istanbul University of the Social Democrat University Students Platform, which was established to bring together the social democratic youth.
Odabaşı, who served in the SHP Central Election Bureau in the 1994 local elections, respectively;
In 2011, CHP Istanbul Provincial Vice President and Member of the Board of Directors,
Re-elected in 2012 as Provincial Deputy Chairman and Provincial Vice President responsible for election legal affairs,
In 2015, CHP Istanbul Provincial Secretariat, under the management of Mr. Murat Karayalçın’s Istanbul Provincial Presidency,
He held different positions in election legal affairs and campaign management, in the 2014 local elections and the 2015 general elections.
Odabaşı worked closely with many non-governmental organizations, especially with the Turkish Social Economic and Political Research Foundation (TÜSES) and Fenerbahçe club memberships.
Odabaşı, who worked as a self-employed lawyer in his own law firm from 1999 until he was elected Mayor of Kadıköy, is married and has a daughter and a son.