Arif Babur Ordu

Arif Babür Ordu (2014)

Arif Babür Ordu (born July 18, 1956 in Istanbul , Turkey) is a German-Turkish doctor, politician and entrepreneur. Ordu was a member of the FDP from 1987 to 1998 and federal chairman of the Liberal Turkish-German Association (LTD) from 1993 to 1999; since then he has been its honorary chairman. In 2013 he founded a medical care center in Kassel, where he works as a doctor and managing partner.

Career

Ordu was born in Istanbul as the son of an agricultural engineer and a pediatrician. His mother Kamran Ordu, b. Yolageldili, had already completed her training as a specialist doctor in Germany from 1949 to 1953 as Albert Eckstein's assistant. At the beginning of 1962 she was called to the Saarland University by Johannes Baptist Mayer . Her husband Oguz and her son Arif Babür came to Germany with her. After graduating from Schwalm-Gymnasium in Schwalmstadt , Ordu studied medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg . There he passed the state examination in 1982 and received his doctorate on the subject of "Documents on the History of the German Hospital in Istanbul". After completing his basic military service with the medical battalion in Marburg - as the first staff officer of Turkish origin in the German Armed Forces - Ordu trained to become a family doctor . He stayed in Northern Hesse and founded a general practice in Homberg in 1984 .

Ordu was involved in the following years with the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Hesse (PR committee, media advisory board and moderator for the ARD health program “Hallo, wie geht's?”) And in the professional association of general practitioners in Hesse (district chairman, state board). In 1992 he was elected chairman of the medical association of the Marburg district, also as the first doctor of Turkish origin. The xenophobic attacks in Mölln in 1992 and Solingen in 1993 led Ordu to believe that he had to do even more for a peaceful, common future for immigrants and locals. In addition to his political activities, he gave many lectures during these years to promote understanding between Germans and migrants. In 1993 he founded the Turkish-German Employers' Association North Hesse and became its deputy chairman. In 1995 he was elected as the first chairman of the supervisory board when the nationwide Turkish-German employers' association (TIDAF) was founded. After the death of his mother in 1989, his father also died after a short, serious illness in 1997. In 1998, Ordu then gave up his family doctor's practice in Homberg to a successor and, together with other colleagues, got involved in the development of old-age and nursing care for Turkish migrants in Germany and from Returnees in Turkey. After the great earthquake in İzmit in 1999, as the first chairman of the Izmit Orphanage Association, he made a significant contribution to the reconstruction of the destroyed orphanage in the earthquake region with the help of donations from the European Development Bank in Luxembourg.

In 2001 Ordu founded a new family doctor practice in Kassel , which quickly became very popular with Turkish migrants. It became the nucleus of the MVZ Medikum 2006. After separating from the Medikum Group in 2008, Ordu founded a new family doctor practice in Kassel-Mitte , which specializes in the health issues of migrants (Meditürk). In 2009 Ordu founded the Turkish Health Council North Hesse eV with the aim of deepening health knowledge and health awareness among Turkish migrants. He is the 1st chairman of this association.

Health Partnership North Hesse project

When there were reforms in the legislation on outpatient medical care in 2004, Ordu initiated one of the first independent polyclinics in Germany: the "Medikum" medical care center . Founded in 2005, the Medikum in Kassel began treating patients in 2006. Under the management and medical direction of Ordu, the company quickly grew to become the second largest medical care center in Germany with 16 doctors, 50 employees and two branches in Kassel and Baunatal . In 2007 he succeeded for the first time since the founding of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Germany in 1932 with an alternative supply contract with the Association of Substitute Funds ( Section 73c SGB ​​V).

The North Hesse health partnership promised direct benefits for patients and doctors. Although participation in this nationwide unprecedented care project for patients and doctors was planned on a voluntary basis, the statutory health insurance associations (KV) and the medical professional associations publicly called for a boycott of this project. The subsequent nationwide disputes also led to xenophobic accusations by KV officials. Although the MVZ Medikum was able to fully assert itself legally against the KV Hessen in several instances , the pressure on the co-partners Ordus became so great that he had to retire as managing director, senior doctor and partner of the MVZ in 2008. A short time later, the implementation of the project was abandoned by the new management of Medikum. Since then there has been no further attempt in Germany to develop such a comprehensive supply outside of the KV system.

Political stations

The liberal, cosmopolitan parental home Ordus played a major role in the development of his political leanings. In 1987 he joined the FDP regional association of Hesse . Initially, he was involved in the state committee for social affairs and health and was elected to the corresponding federal committee in 1993. At the New Year's reception of the FDP Schleswig-Holstein in 1993, he met the young politician Mehmet Daimagüler of Turkish origin .

Together the idea arose to create a political infrastructure for liberal Turkish migrants. The timing was well chosen, because after the terrorist arson attacks in Mölln and Solingen, the Turkish immigrants were unsettled and in a political mood of optimism. Ordu contacted the Hessian FDP state chairman Wolfgang Gerhardt and the new federal chairman Klaus Kinkel . Kinkel in particular supported this concern. The Turkish ambassador in Bonn, Onur Öymen , invited Ordu to Stuttgart to meet with the Green politician Cem Özdemir . In the same year, 1993, the “Liberal Turkish-German Association” (LTD) was founded in Frankfurt am Main in the presence of Hermann Otto Solms , Ignatz Bubis and Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen ; Ordu became its federal chairman. The political breakthrough for the LTD and, on the other hand, also for the FDP among migrants, was the first participation of the Federal Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Klaus Kinkel in an FDP-LTD election event in Offenbach on the eve of the 1994 federal election. The meeting met with great media coverage in the German- Turkish media and also opened the eyes of the FDP to the electorate. After the federal election won by the black-yellow coalition, in which Ordu, unlike Cem Özdemir, did not make it into parliament, he was still considered the most influential migrant politician. Until 1997, the LTD organized numerous meetings of the FDP party leadership with voters of Turkish origin nationwide.

At the height of the xenophobic attacks in 1993, Ordu and the chairman of the Turkish-German health foundation Yaşar Bilgin founded the “Council of Turkish Citizens” (RTS) with the aim of serving as the umbrella organization for all political organizations of Turkish migrants. Bilgin became chairman, Ordu his deputy. The RTS had its first practical test just a few weeks after it was founded. Federal Interior Minister Rudolf Seiters feared an escalation in the riots that followed the assassination attempt in Solingen and invited the RTS board to a consultation in Bonn. The member organizations of the RTS subsequently succeeded in calming the tense social atmosphere so that there was no further escalation.

Ordu was meanwhile also involved in local politics. In 1993 he was elected to the honorary city council of Homberg , and in the following year also to the FDP district executive committee for North Hesse. He was also called in as a consultant in the federal executive board and presidium on issues relating to migration policy. When a working group was set up in 1996 to develop the new party conference program, Ordu, as a member, was primarily involved in the content of immigration policy ("The Open Civil Society"). These were adopted as the " Wiesbaden principles " at the 1997 federal party conference with a large majority.

In 1994 the Liberal Democrat Parti (LDP) was founded in Turkey. Its chairman, the entrepreneur Besim Tibuk, got in touch with Ordu in order to win the Turkish migrants in Germany as supporters. After the chairmen Tibuk and Ordu met in 1994, the two organizations agreed to provide extensive mutual support. In 1995, the LTD organized a trip to Germany by Besim Tibuk, which also included a meeting with the FDP Federal Chairman Klaus Kinkel in Frankfurt. Tibuk also met Ignatz Bubis, who returned this visit to Istanbul.

When preparations for the 1998 federal elections began, Ordu applied for a constituency candidacy in order to get a promising place on the state list. Although this first candidacy by a politician of Turkish origin in a bourgeois party was supported by many federal politicians, local and regional party officials blocked this project on site in northern Hesse. For example, the district board has already put up an opposing candidate for the election of the constituency candidate. Nevertheless, Ordu was able to prevail in a narrow battle vote as a constituency candidate, but failed at the 1997 election party conference in Friedberg. The process became unintentionally explosive when a reporter for Hessian television happened to hear that a party congress delegate was calling Ordu "Turkish Kanacken" during the candidate's speech. When, according to a report by Hessen TV, the party committees did not want to deal with it and wanted to be satisfied with a half-hearted explanation by the delegate, Ordu declared his resignation from the FDP after 11 years of membership.

Web links

• Official website of the LTD eV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arif Babür Ordu: Documents on the history of the German hospital in Istanbul . Thesis Marburg, University, dissertation, 1982.
2. ↑ Excursus: Council of Turkish Citizens (RTS). In: Kozmopolit.com. Retrieved July 13, 2011 .