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Azize Tank (2014)

Azize Tank (born January 1, 1950 in Turkey ) is a Turkish-German politician (non-party). From 1990 to 2009 she was the migration commissioner in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and from 2013 to 2017 a member of the Bundestag for the party Die Linke .

Life

Azize Tank worked as a civil servant in the postal administration in Istanbul after finishing school . She has lived in Germany since 1972. First she worked for a year in a porcelain factory in Upper Palatinate / Bavaria . On her second educational path, she completed additional training as a social worker in Berlin . Her main focus was on working with children and young people with a migration background until she was the migration officer for Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf from 1990 to 2009.

From the beginning she was active as an activist in the West Berlin women's and peace movement. She was a founder, board member, chairwoman or spokesperson for the Turkish Women's Association, the West Berlin Committee for Women's Rights, the Turkish Bund Berlin-Brandenburg, and the Berlin Initiative against Violence against Women. As a migration commissioner, she and supporters founded the "Pangea-Haus", an intercultural meeting center of the district office of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf.

Tank is married and has two grown daughters. Together with her husband, the lawyer Hans-Eberhard Schultz , she founded the Eberhard Schultz Foundation for Social Human Rights and Participation in 2011 , which has set itself the task of promoting social human rights in the sense of the international pact on economic, social and cultural rights from 1966 to strengthen. She is a board member of the foundation.

MPs

In the general election in 2013 ran the non-party Azize tank in the constituency Berlin-Tempelhof - Schöneberg , and passed over the Berlin regional list of the party Die Linke in the 18th German Bundestag one. She was a full member of the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs and a deputy member of the Foreign Culture and Education Policy subcommittee and of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment . For her parliamentary group, she was the spokesperson for social human rights and a member of Working Group I Social Affairs, Health and Pension of the left-wing group.

In 2013, Tank received a threatening letter from the NPD district chairman Jan Sturm, in which he advised her to leave Germany. She took legal action against this threat. At the end of 2015, the Berlin Court of Appeal forbade Sturm from spreading his so-called “exit request”.

Web links

Commons : Azize Tank  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.sozialemenschenrechtsstiftung.org/die-stiftung/ueber-uns.html
  2. ↑ http://www.endstation-rechts.de/news/ategorie/npd/artikel/npd-heimfuehrungsbeauftragter-jan-sturm-vor-gericht-nur-laues-lueftchen.html
personal data
SURNAME Tank, Azize
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish-German politician (Die Linke)
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Turkey