Ali Atalan

Ali Atalan (born January 5, 1968 in Midyat , Turkey ) is a German - Turkish politician of Yazidi descent ( Die Linke , HDP ).

Life

Ali Atalan grew up in a Yazidi family and came to Germany in 1985. After graduating from high school, he studied political science and sociology at the Ruhr University Bochum and graduated with a degree in social science.

In Dülmen he was a member of the council's social committee from 1990 to 1994. From 1998 to 2001 he was active in Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . Since 2001 he has been a member of the Die Linke party .

From 2004 to 2010 he was a council member of the city of Münster , from 2009 in the parliamentary group of the party Die Linke . From 2010 to 2012 he was a member of the NRW state parliament in the 15th electoral period. After moving into the state parliament, he resigned his council mandate. In 2014 Atalan returned to the Münster City Council.

In the 2015 parliamentary elections in Turkey , Ali Atalan was elected to the Turkish parliament for the democratic-socialist and pro-Kurdish Halkların Demokratik Partisi (Democratic Party of the Peoples, HDP).

Web links

• Ali Atalan's website ( Memento of January 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• Profile on the website of the National Assembly of Turkey

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ratsinfo der Stadt Dülmen ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Ali Atalan at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
3. ↑ Tipping the scales: Sagel and Atalan (Linke) bet on red-green in Düsseldorf ( memento from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: City magazine Echo Münster from May 15, 2010.
4. ↑ Münsteraner is running successfully for the HDP in the provincial capital Batma . Westfälische Nachrichten online, June 9, 2015.