Vural Öger

Vural Oger ( born 1 February 1942 in Ankara) is a Turkish- German businessman and politician ( SPD). He was from 1982 to July 12, 2010 Managing Director of Oger Tours GmbH and from 2004 to 2009 Member of the European Parliament.

Life and career

Ögers father was a Turkish general, his mother comes from large middle-class family. After attending school in Ankara Oger in 1960 went to Germany and began in 1961 to study at the Faculty of Mining of the Technical University of Berlin, which he finished in 1968 as a graduate engineer. Oger worked alongside their studies in the student travel service provided by TU Berlin and founded in Hamburg in 1969, the travel agency Istanbul, which offered the first direct flights from Hamburg to Turkey. It was 1973, the Öger Türk Tur GmbH forth. In 1982, he founded the company Oger Tours GmbH in Hamburg. Since 1990, Oger is a German citizen. He is married to a German woman and has three children. After his sale of Oger Tours in 2010 to Thomas Cook in 2014 he founded a new organizer V.Ö. Travel - Vural Oger Touristik GmbH.

Member of Parliament

Oger from 2004 to 2009 Member of the European Parliament. There he was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on International Trade. He was a member of the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.

Social commitment

Oger 1998 belonged to the founders of the German - Turkish Foundation (DTS ) and has since been a member of the Board of Trustees of DTS. In 2001 he was a member of the Immigration Commission, headed by Rita Süssmuth the federal government.

Vural Oger in 2001 was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, which awarded him the then Federal President Johannes Rau for its intercultural commitment and for his support for the integration of foreign residents in Germany. In the same year he also the Medal of Merit of the Turkish state was awarded the award for special services.

Criticism

In 2004, Oger has been criticized for the statement:

He later explained that it had been inspired by the, also from the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet published, only traded quote a joke. First, however, has been his statement, " German women would get to little children," criticized in public.

Publications

• Vural Oger: My Germany, my Turkey: Life between the Bosporus and the Elbe. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2002, ISBN 3-498-05031-1.
• Vural Oger: Benim Almanyam, benim Türkiyem. (Translated by Suzan Cenani Alioğlu ). Altın Kitaplar Yayınevi, Cağaloğlu, Istanbul 2003, ISBN 975-21-0411-8.