Ali Ertan Toprak

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Ali Ertan Toprak (2015)

Ali Ertan Toprak (born April 25, 1969 in Ankara , Turkey ) is a German politician of Kurdish descent. He is the leading representative of the Kurdish Community in Germany. V. Toprak was General Secretary of the Alevi Congregation in Germany from 2006 to 2009 and its Deputy Chairman from 2009 to 2012. After many years of membership in Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , he joined the CDU in 2014 . Toprak has appeared for some time in important German print media such as taz , Die Welt , Die Zeit , Emma , Cicero and others, as well as in television and radio broadcasts.

Background and education

The mother of Toprak, who was born in Turkey, came to Hamburg as a guest worker in 1971 and brought her son to join her in 1972; However, he lived in parallel for a few years in both countries and started school in Turkey. Only from the 4th grade did he stay in Germany permanently and lived in Recklinghausen , where his father taught the children of Turkish guest workers their native language as a Turkish teacher.

After graduating from high school, he studied law and social sciences at the universities of Münster , Bochum and Duisburg-Essen , but without a degree.

Public offices and positions

With the Alevi community in Germany, Toprak represented the second largest religious community among migrants of Turkish origin in the Federal Republic of Germany , which has around 500,000 members. He is the federal chairman of the KGD, the Kurdish community in Germany.

Toprak was from 2004 to the end of 2009 a member of the Greens in the city council of Recklinghausen and from 2006 to 2012 participant in the Islam Conference . Before that, he worked for several years in the German Bundestag as a domestic and foreign policy advisor to the Bundestag member Cem Özdemir .

From 2006 to 2013 he was a permanent participant in the integration summit of the federal government as well as a speaker in the context of diplomatic training and other events of the Federal Foreign Office .

Toprak has distinguished itself as a critic of the red-green integration policy. In an interview with the daily newspaper Die Welt in April 2011 he accused the SPD and the Greens of making themselves “assistants to the Turkish Prime Minister” because of their cooperation with a Muslim association for religious education, and referred to the persecution of Alevis by Sunni Islamists. Shortly after this settlement with the green integration policy, especially with the uncritical attitude of the Greens towards the orthodox Islamic associations, Toprak left the party. He has been a member of the CDU since 2014 and has been a member of the CDU's “Future Commission” since October of the same year.

Ali Ertan Toprak ran for the state elections in Hamburg on February 23, 2020 at number 20 on the list of the Hamburg CDU, which only received 15 seats.

Ali Ertan Toprak has been federal chairman of the "Kurdish Community in Germany eV" (KGD) since 2013. Since May 2015 he has also been President of the “Federal Working Group of Immigrant Associations in Germany” (BAGIV), which, according to his own statements, is the only nationwide multinational umbrella organization of migrant self-organizations with the aim of self-representation that promotes integration.

In 2013, in a press release from the Kurdish Community in Germany , he called for the ban on the PKK, which is also classified as a terrorist organization in Germany, to be lifted .

Since mid-2016's Ali Ertan Toprak as "representatives of the migrants," a member of the ZDF - Television .

According to the BAGIV, Ali Ertan Toprak was accepted as a member of the “ German Institute for Human Rights ”, which is mainly financed by federal funds, in autumn 2017 as a representative of migrants in Germany .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ His enemies threaten: "Only a dead Kurd is a good Kurd" , guest article by Ali Ertan Toprak in Die Zeit No. 48/2019, November 21, 2019
  2. ↑ For the biography cf. Interview with Ali Ertan Toprak and Mehmet Tanriverdi, KGD , website of the Kurdish Community of Germany, spring. 2013
  3. ^ BAMF: Muslim Life in Germany ( Memento of May 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (2009); P. 314 states “between 480,000 and 552,000” - PDF, 6 MB
  4. ↑ In: SPD and Greens “make radicals socially acceptable” ; WELT interview with AE Toprak, April 22, 2011
  5. ↑ See mention of Toprak in “Laschet brings Merz back - as a CDU signal in the direction of AfD?” , WAZ , October 12, 2014
  6. ↑ http://www.bagiv.de/
  7. ↑ https://kurdische-gemeinde.de/pressemitteilung-122811-2013-pkk-verbot-kurden-wollen-aussoehnung/
  8. ↑ ZDF TV Council - "Six out of sixty" , Sächsische Zeitung , July 6, 2016
  9. ^ BAGIV accepted as an official member of the "German Institute for Human Rights" , BAGIV, October 16, 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Toprak, Ali Ertan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German General Secretary of the Alevi Congregation in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Ankara , Turkey