Özlem Demirel
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Özlem Demirel | |
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Member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia | |
In office June 2011 – March 2012 | |
Member of the European Parliament for Germany | |
Assumed office 24 May 2019 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Malatya, Turkey | 10 March 1984
Nationality | German |
Political party | The Left |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | University of Bonn |
Occupation | Politician |
Website | https://oezlem-alev-demirel.de |
Özlem Demirel (born 10 March 1984, in Malatya, Turkey)[1] is a German politician who is currently a serving representative of the party The Left as a Member of the European Parliament.[2]
Education
She attended primary and secondary education in Bielefeld and Cologne,[3] and graduated from high school in 2004. she began to study political sciences and history at the University of Bonn.[1]
Political career
She has interested herself early on in politics and with 15 years she became involved in the youth section of the Democratic Workers Union (DIDF).[3] In 2012 she became the DIDF Chairwoman.[3] From 2005 to 2007 she was a member of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), and co-founded The Left party in 2007.[4] She led The Left in the campaign together with Christian Leye to the election to the State Parliament (Landtag) of Nord Rhine-Westphalia in 2017,[5] where The Left did not reach the affordable 5% to enter the Landtag.[6] She was again the leading candidate of The Left's electoral campaign to the European Parliament in 2019[7] to which she was elected on 24 May 2019.[4] In the European Parliament she is both a vice chair of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence and the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee[8]
On 2 March 2022, she was one of 13 MEPs who voted against a resolution condemning the
Personal life
Demirel was born in Malatya in 1984, and migrated to Germany together with her family when she was 5 years old.[3] She is married and a mother of two children.[7]
References
- ^ a b Nordrhein-Westfalen, Landtag. "Landtag NRW: Abgeordnete Özlem Alev Demirel". www.landtag.nrw.de (in German). Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- ^ "Alle Gewählte in alphabetischer Reihenfolge". Der Bundeswahlleiter (in German). Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ^ a b c d "Interview mit der DIDF Vorsitzenden Özlem Alev Demirel". DIDF-Jugend (in German). 9 June 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Europaparlament". Die Linke. Nordrhein-Westfalen (in German). Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- ^ "Linken-Spitzenkandidatin Demirel: "Frau Kraft will uns doch nur provozieren"". Kölnische Rundschau (in German). 24 March 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- ^ "Entscheidung in NRW: Schwere Wahlpleite für Rot-Grün in NRW". www1.wdr.de (in German). 2 June 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- ^ a b tagesschau.de. "Özlem Alev Demirel: Arbeiterkind mit Kämpferherz". tagesschau.de (in German). Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- ^ "Özlem Demirel". www.europarl.europa.eu. 10 March 1984. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- ^ "We asked 13 MEPs why they voted no to condemn Russia's war in Ukraine". 2 March 2022.
- ^ "Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto". Specter Journal. 17 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
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