Ali Can

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Ali Can (born October 31, 1993 in Pazarcık ) is a German - Turkish social activist .

Life

Ali Can is the eldest son of an immigrated Turkish- Kurdish Alevi family from the southeastern Turkish province of Kahramanmaraş . At the age of two, his parents sought asylum in Germany in 1995 after discrimination against Kurdish Alevis. Can grew up in Warendorf . In 2006 the family received a residence permit . Two years later, she moved to Watzenborn-Steinberg , where her parents opened a kebab shop and Can graduated from high school, as well as doing an internship with the Unicef group in Giessen .

In 2016 he founded the Friedensverein Interkultureller Frieden eV , which advocates the peaceful coexistence of people of different religions, nationalities and interests. In the same year, Can founded the hotline for concerned citizens as part of the refugee crisis after visiting events organized by Pegida and Alternative für Deutschland . He wants to take the fear away from Germans who are afraid of refugees with the citizen hotline. With the action, Ali attracted attention and in August 2017 published the book Hotline for Concerned Citizens: Answers from asylum seekers you trust . In September 2016 Can was a guest of the ARD morning magazine , in December 2016 the ARD talk show Maischberger . In the 2017 federal election campaign, he spoke out against labeling all AfD supporters as Nazis and racists.

After the public resignation of the soccer player Mesut Özil from the German national soccer team , in which Özil's discussion of the racism he had experienced in Germany led to a lot of media coverage and a broad discussion in the public, Can called in a video together with online magazine Perspective Daily based on it to the #MeToo - hashtag to describe personal experiences under the hashtag #MeTwo . While #MeToo women used the description of personal experiences to draw attention to the extent of sexual harassment and sexual assault , under #MeTwo numerous people with a migration background share their own perception of discrimination in everyday life. Within a few days, tens of thousands of users shared the #MeTwo hashtag and the media took up the topic internationally.

Can is studying German and ethics in teaching at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen .

Publications

  • Hotline for concerned citizens: Answers from asylum seekers you trust, Bastei Lübbe, 2017, ISBN 978-3785726044

Awards

  • 2016: RTL Com.mit Award in the "Audience Award" category and 2nd place in the "Individuals" category

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christina Waechter: That's ... Ali Can, founder of the hashtag #MeTwo . In: now . July 27, 2018.
  2. ↑ Sarah Obertreis: Laughing with Xenophobes . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 18, 2016.
  3. ^ "My offer is aimed at AfD voters" . In: Der Spiegel . September 6, 2016.
  4. ↑ Luisa Jacobs: Ali and the AfD . In: The time . 23rd September 2016.
  5. ↑ Susanne Luerweg: Ali Can's “Hotline for Concerned Citizens” - “Better to ask questions instead of giving answers” . In: Deutschlandfunk . August 31, 2017.
  6. ↑ Nastassja Shtrauchler: Ali Can: The migrant and the hotline . In: Deutsche Welle . August 25, 2017.
  7. ↑ Ali Can in a portrait - "Between do-gooders and racists there are many shades of gray" . In: Der Tagesspiegel . October 21, 2017.
  8. ↑ Ali Can and his “hotline for concerned citizens” ( Memento from September 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: ARD morning magazine . September 8, 2016.
  9. ↑ Luise Checchin: "My Sharia says that I should be loyal to the country in which I live" . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . 17th November 2016.
  10. ↑ Justus Bender: Ali, Bernd und die Chilischoten, in: FAS No. 35, September 3, 2017, p. 12.
  11. ↑ "My grandpa shot someone like you earlier" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 27, 2018.
  12. ↑ fs: Özil is not alone: ​​#MeTwo goes viral . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 27, 2018.
  13. ↑ "but you speak good German!" . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 27, 2018.
  14. ^ German and Something Else: Minorities Say #metwo After Ozil Quits . In: New York Times . July 27, 2018.
  15. ↑ Anja Willner: This ex-asylum seeker answers questions from "concerned citizens" on the phone . In: Focus . September 9, 2016.
  16. ↑ RTL presents the Com.mit Award . In: n-tv . September 7, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Can, Ali
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Turkish social activist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Pazarcık