Ekin Deligöz

Ekin Deligöz (* April 21, 1971 in Tokat, Turkey) is a German politician ( Alliance 90/The Greens ). She is since 1998 a member of the German Bundestag and since 2013 member of the Budget Committee for the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group.

Biography

In September 1979 Ekin Deligöz came from Turkey with her ​​family in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1992, she was in the White Horn High School and then earned a degree in Management Sciences in Konstanz and Vienna, where she graduated in 1998 with a degree in management scientist.

Ekin Deligöz is a German citizen since 1997. She is married and has two children.

Party

As a student she was a member of the Green Party in 1988, today the Alliance 90/The Greens. She was one of the founders in 1991 of the Bavarian Association of Young Greens and was at this time spokesperson for the Green Alternative Youth Stained Bavaria. From 1991 to 1993 Ekin Deligöz was in the local council sent. It participated from 1993 to 1995 on development of green university group at the University of Konstanz.

From 2002 to 2008 Ekin Deligöz was President of the District Association Schwaben of Alliance 90/The Greens. From 2004 to 2012, she also belonged to the party council of the Greens in Bavaria.

Member of Parliament

Ekin Deligöz is a member of the German Bundestag since 1998. Here she was 2002-2005 parliamentary secretary of the parliamentary group of Alliance 90/The Greens. From 1998 to 2009 she was a member of the Children's Commission of the German Bundestag. From 2005 to 2009 she was deputy chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women.

In the 16th German Bundestag, she was one of five Muslims. In the 17th electoral term Deligöz was one of the Vice Presidents of the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group. She was a regular member of the Parliamentary Committee for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and a member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment. In addition, she was a deputy member of the Finance Committee and alternate member of the Children's Commission of the German Bundestag.

Ekin Deligöz, is laced as all Members of the Bavarian countryside over the national list Bavaria with the list in third place in the Bundestag. My constituency is Neu-Ulm. Since January 2013, it counts as the successor of Jerzy Montag spokeswoman for the Bavarian group in the Bundestag.

Since the 18th legislature Deligöz Member is of the Budget Committee of the German Parliament and deputy chairman of the audit committee.

Volunteerism

• Board member of UNICEF Germany
• Board member of Against Forgetting - For Democracy

Awards

• German - Turkish Friendship Award 2007 in the category Politics

Call to drop the veil

On October 15, 2006 Deligöz cried in the image on Sunday along with a group of German -Turkish politicians living in Germany Muslim women to on, remove the headscarf. She urged all democratic forces and especially women of Turkish origin in Germany to protect itself against this " sign of the oppression of women " to fight back. Then she saw next to a press campaign conservative Turkish newspapers also insults and death threats of radical Muslims faced. The Islamic Council and the Milli Görüş criticized this call to the effect that all like-minded people to " the boards in front of their own minds " should take better care. At a meeting between representatives of Islamic associations, among others, Ali Kızılkaya from the Islamic Council and Kenan Kolat of the Turkish Community in Germany and representatives of Alliance 90/The Greens, including except Deligöz also parliamentary leader Renate Künast and Wolfgang Wieland in Berlin on 31 October 2006, you could at least agree on the minimum consensus, not to question the right to freedom of expression in question.

The hardest Deligöz was attacked by Turkish- Islamist circles. Deligöz belongs to the denomination of the Alevis, who reject gender-specific dress code outside of worship, so that Alevi women to wear a headscarf.

Publications

• Foreigners between integration and segregation. Using the example of the Turkish population in Konstanz, Konstanz writings on social science, Volume 50, Hartung Gorre Verlag Konstanz 1999, 120 pp., ISBN 3-89649-366-3, thesis.
• ( Preface ): Students of Turkish descent at the University of Konstanz. An empirical study, in: Angelika Haas, Thorsten Berndt, Lars Dommermuth, Konstanz, Hartung - Gorre 1998, ISBN 3-89649-336-1.
• Tasks and priorities of a future child and youth policy. In: How capable is youth policy - how policy is capable of Youth Services. Edited by A. Engelbrecht, S. Beniers inter alia, Frankfurt am Main, 2000.
• Migrants in the cities. In: Environment and Housing at the University. Konstanz 2000.
• Policy for children in difficult neighborhoods. In: growing and learning in the social city, children and youth in difficult habitats. Hhrsg. by Kirsten Bruhn and Wolfgang Mack, Opladen, Publisher of Social Sciences 2001, ISBN 3-8100-3040-6.
• Policies for children - policy for parents. Documentation of a meeting of the Heinrich Böll Foundation of 13-14. June 2002.
• Perspective -two: An interim report of the red- green citizenship reform. In: Dual Citizenship - a social discourse on multiple nationality. Edited by Y. Schröter, C. Mengel Kamp, R. Hunter, Landau, publisher Educatin 2005, 388 pp., ISBN 3-937333-02-9.
• Plea for a new culture of recognition - a Swabian- Turkish rapprochement with the "dominant culture " debate. In: Constitution, patriotism, dominant culture. What our society together. Edited by Norbert Lammert, Hamburg, Hoffmann und Campe 2006, 300 pp., ISBN 3455500056th
• Be Involved instead pay for. In: I can. I may. I want. Opportunities and limits meaningful child participation. Edited by Markus Schaechter, Baden -Baden, Nomos 2011 160 pages ISBN 3,832,958,614th
• We called workers and we got people .. In: Against Forgetting FOR DEMOCRACY - Information for members, friends and supporters of Against Forgetting - For Democracy Edited by Against Forgetting for Democracy, Berlin, 2013 50 p. .