German-Turkish Forum

German-Turkish Forum (DTF for short) is a platform within the CDU . Member organizations with this name continue to exist within the party's regional and district associations. A distinction must be made between non-party affiliated organizations of the same name at the municipal level in Offenbach am Main and in Stuttgart ( German-Turkish Forum Stuttgart ).

The DTF is a platform for Turkish origin and the integration policy interest of German origin within the CDU and aims to promote "rapprochement between Germans and immigrants while respecting their cultural identity." For this purpose, the forum concentrates on educational, cultural and economic aspects of the integration of residents with a Turkish immigration history . In 2010, forums made up of several party associations drew up a joint basic program.

In 1996 and 1997 the first CDU forums were founded in North Rhine-Westphalia and Berlin . The forum in Berlin was dissolved in 2013 due to the relocation of activities to the “ Network Integration ” of the CDU. In 2014, the North Rhine-Westphalian forum was part of the cross-national "Union of Diversity - State Network Integration of the CDU NRW". In 2016 forums existed in the CDU Bremen , CDU Hamburg and Stuttgart.

According to estimates by the DTF, the CDU already has 2000 members with a Turkish migration background. These include a number of officials and mandate holders such as Ismail Tipi, Member of the State Parliament in Hesse, and Serap Güler, Member of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .

criticism

In June 2009 the DTF-NRW board member Ali H. Yildiz resigned from his office because the DTF did not distance itself clearly enough from the " gray wolves ". Yildiz declared literally: "It cannot be that we unite against Pro Köln on the one hand and court the Turkish NPD through the CDU Cologne on the other." His conscience is not about to continue working with sympathizers of the Turkish right-wing extremists arrange.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ German-Turkish Forum City and District Offenbach eV
3. ^ German-Turkish Forum eV Türk-Alman Forumu Stuttgart
4. ↑ ^{a b} Basic program of the German-Turkish forums of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany , 2010.
5. ↑ Andreas Blätte: The voices of migrants in the federal election campaign 2013 . Election campaign in the immigration society. In: Karl-Rudolf Korte (ed.): The Federal Parliament Election 2013: Analyzes of Election, Party, Communication and Government Research . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-02914-2 , p. 232 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-658-02915-9 ( google.de ).
6. ↑ Network integration
7. ^ Regional executive committee of the CDU Berlin. Resolution on the dissolution of the Berlin regional associations of the German-Turkish Forum (DTF) and the German-Greek Forum (DGF) ( Memento of the original dated February 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2013. 
8. ^ German-Turkish forum of the CDU in NRW. Union of Diversity is a new force in the CDU NRW ( Memento from February 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Press release and invitation to the founding event, 2014.
9. ^ German-Turkish Forum (DTF) , CDU Bremen
10. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. Turkish right-wing extremists: "Gray wolves" in the Cologne CDU ( memento of the original from June 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 4, 2009.