Berivan Aymaz

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Berivan Aymaz (2016)

Berivan Aymaz (born July 5, 1972 in Genç ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) of Kurdish origin. She has sat for her party in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017 as the spokeswoman for integration policy, refugee policy and international affairs / Eine Welt der Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen.

Life

Aymaz was born in the Kurdish province of Bingöl, Turkey . Her father was mayor of this province until the end of 1977 and in 1978 traveled to Germany as a diplomat (cultural attaché). In the same year Berivan Aymaz moved with her mother and brother. Her father was due to be recalled from office shortly before the military coup in Turkey in 1980 due to his Kurdish origin , but he refused to travel back to Turkey. The family first moved to Paderborn , and Aymaz has lived in Cologne since 1980, where she was the student representative at the Kaiserin-Theophanu-Schule and graduated from high school in 1990. After graduating from high school, she studied law at the University of Cologne and later political science at the University of Duisburg-Essen , but did not obtain a university degree. She has been working as a freelance translator and moderator since she started studying.

As a student representative, Aymaz was already committed to human rights, peace and anti-racism politics. In 1991 she organized the first student demonstrations against the Gulf War. Aymaz was co-founder in 1993 and the first general secretary of the Kurdish community in Germany until 2003 .

As a project manager on migration, transnationality and intercultural remembrance work, Aymaz got involved with various human rights and migrant organizations early on for a human rights-oriented refugee and emancipatory migration policy. In 2010 she was co-coordinator of the nationwide campaign "Justice for Doğan Akhanlı ", which campaigned for the release of the Cologne writer. In the course of this she was several times as a trial observer in Turkey. In the run-up to the Turkish parliamentary elections in 2015, Aymaz initiated the motion “For Peace and Freedom in Turkey” for the Federal Green Party Congress, which expresses solidarity with the Turkish-Kurdish party HDP . Numerous leading Green politicians followed suit.

Political career

In 2009 Aymaz joined the Green Party , co-founded the state working group “Säkulare Grüne NRW” in 2012 and was its spokesperson until 2018. From 2013 to 2016 she was a member of the Federal Party's commission on "Weltanschauungen, religious communities and the state". She ran as a direct candidate for the Bundestag in 2013 for the constituency of Cologne I (constituency 93 ). From 2013 to 2014 she was on the district board of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Cologne. Aymaz ran for the Council of the City of Cologne in 2014 and successfully moved into the council above list position 5. There she represented the Green Group until September 2017.

In May 2017, Aymaz moved into the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament at number 13 and thereupon resigned her council mandate for the city of Cologne. She is the spokesperson for integration policy, refugee policy and international affairs / one world of the Green parliamentary group.

Aymaz is a full member of the Integration Committee, the Interior Committee, the Petitions Committee and a deputy member of the Committee for Europe and International Affairs and the Committee for Schools and Education. She is also a deputy member of the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry (PUA III), which is supposed to investigate the death of the innocently imprisoned Syrian Amad A. in the Kleve prison . Aymaz is also the secretary of the state parliament.

Other functions as a member of parliament

As a member of the NRW state parliament, Aymaz is a member of the NRW-Turkey parliamentary group. Aymaz also has a seat on the board of trustees of the Foundation Center for Turkish Studies and Integration Research. She is a member of the interior, petitions and integration committee of the state parliament, in which she is also the spokesperson for her parliamentary group.

literature

  • Portrait: Berivan Aymaz (Greens), in: Landtag intern, issue 10 of December 27, 2019

Web links

Commons : Berivan Aymaz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Selected applicants , State Returning Officer North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on May 16, 2017
  2. ↑ a b Green parliamentary group in North Rhine-Westphalia: MPs. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
  3. ^ Proposal to the 39th Ordinary Federal Delegates' Conference of ALLIANCE 90 / THE GREENS, 20.-22. November 2015, Halle an der Saale: "For peace and freedom in Turkey". (PDF) Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Green for HDP. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Constituency results for the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia constituency 093 - Cologne I. Accessed on March 28, 2019 .
  6. ^ Council information City of Cologne: Berivan Aymaz. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Selected applicants , State Returning Officer North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 28, 2019
  8. ↑ Landtag NRW: Investigative Committees: Investigative Committee III (Kleve): Committee members. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
  9. ^ Green parliamentary group NRW: MPs: Berivan Aymaz. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
  10. ^ Members of the parliamentary group Turkey. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
  11. ^ Foundation Center for Turkish Studies and Integration Research: Board of Trustees. Retrieved March 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Aymaz, Berivan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdL North Rhine-Westphalia
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Genç , Bingöl Province , Turkey