Fatih Zingal

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Fatih Zingal (born May 27, 1979 in Solingen ) is a German lawyer and politician of Turkish origin . He particularly deals with the topics of foreign policy , racism , Islamophobia and the political participation of migrants .

Life

Fatih Zingal was born in 1979 in Solingen, Germany, and graduated from high school in 1998. He then studied law from 1998 to 2004 at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . He received a scholarship from the Carl Russ Foundation . In his youth, he was particularly influenced by the murder attack in Solingen in 1993, where five members of the Genç family , with whom Zingal is good friends, fell victim to the attack.

Zingal was a member of the SPD from 2001 to 2011 . During this time he held various functions within the party. Among other things, he was deputy chairman of the Jusos in Solingen. The decisive point that led to his resignation from the party was how the SPD dealt with Thilo Sarrazin . He was active in local politics in Solingen, u. a. At the end of 2004 he was elected deputy chairman of the Immigration and Integration Council of the City of Solingen and was a member of the Alliance for Tolerance and Civil Courage. The city of Solingen received the integration award from the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Bertelsmann Foundation .

Zingal gained notoriety through his appearances on TV programs in German-speaking countries (including Anne Will , Maybrit Illner , Hart aber fair , Rundschau (SRF) ). At the end of 2013 he was involved in the founding process of the Union of European-Turkish Democrats (UETD) Solingen and was its deputy chairman until the 2015 Turkish parliamentary elections. Immediately after the parliamentary elections in Turkey in 2015, he was appointed deputy chairman of the European headquarters of the UETD, the lobby organization of the Turkish ruling party AKP , and was the head of the political competence center. The following year he also became the organization's spokesman. His offices in the UETD ended at the end of his ordinary term in May 2018 after the General Assembly in Bosnia , at which the UETD was renamed Union International Democrats (UID).

position

During the broadcast at Maybrit Illner on the Armenian Resolution 2016 of the Bundestag he took the position that can not decide politicians or parliaments, whether the events of 1915 in Anatolia , a genocide was but historians and lawyers. The term genocide is a legal term and this term presupposes a systematic intention to exterminate and it is precisely this question that must be examined by an impartial commission of historians.

Fatih Zingal also takes the position that behind the attempted coup on July 15, 2016 in Turkey, there was a parallel state structure that has been developing for years. As evidence of this, he listed, among other things, the confiscation of the book The Imam's Army by the investigative journalist Ahmet Şık , which was collected before the appearance by members of the Gülen movement who were state employees. The book was considered the most dangerous book in the country, as it revealed the parallel structures of the Gülen movement in the state.

After the verdict in the NSU trial , Fatih Zingal told the Huffington Post : “I believe the impression that everything has not been fully cleared up regarding backers, informers and institutional racism is what will be remembered from this trial becomes. That is exactly the main feeling that prevails in the German-Turkish community. "

After Mesut Özil's resignation from the German national team , Zingal reacted with solidarity with Özil and criticism of the DFB boss Reinhard Grindel and took the view that the “latent racism” in Germany had come to light through the Erdogan photo and the associated debate .

Position on the PKK

Fatih Zingal often criticizes the inaction and passivity of the German authorities towards the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and its successor organizations. Above all, he condemns the annual Zilan women's festivals, which bear the name of the PKK suicide bomber Zeynep Kınacı .

Lecturing

Fatih Zingal gives numerous lectures in German-speaking countries on topics of international politics, German-Turkish relations, racism, Islamophobia , refugee issues and the political participation of migrants .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Suspend accession negotiations with Turkey? - "We waited frustrated in the entrance hall of Europe for years" . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed September 12, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Fatih Zingal. Retrieved September 12, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Fatih Zingal. Retrieved September 12, 2018 .
  4. ^ "Headscarf certificate" required: City of Pforzheim triggers headscarf dispute - news from Pforzheim at PZ-news.de | Pforzheimer Zeitung - Pforzheimer Zeitung . ( pz-news.de [accessed September 12, 2018]).
  5. ^ Fatih Zingal resignation of the SPD. In: Solinger-Tageblatt.de. May 2, 2011, accessed September 12, 2018 .
  6. ^ Minutes of the 1st meeting of the Immigrant and Integration Council. (PDF) In: Solingen.de. December 21, 2004, accessed September 12, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Experience report to the Ministry of the Interior in North Rhine-Westphalia. Carrying out the experiments according to § 126 GO - Immigration and Integration Council of the City of Solingen (PDF) In: Solingen.de. August 15, 2007, accessed September 12, 2018 .
  8. ^ Solingen, Stadt - Familieninfo - Solingen international - FindCity. Retrieved September 12, 2018 .
  9. ^ Hans Hütt : TV review: Anne Will: Only one celebrates the victory of democracy. In: FAZ.net. July 18, 2016, accessed November 1, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau: "Maybrit Illner - Erdogan's Zorn": Turkish-German lawyer finds "Nazi comparisons inadmissible" . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on September 12, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Live freedom here, vote Erdogan there - how does that fit… | Hard but fair. Retrieved September 12, 2018 .
  12. ^ SBB, Kurdish expulsion, Fatih Zingal, community mergers. Swiss Radio and Television SRF, December 14, 2016, accessed on September 12, 2018 (Swiss Standard German).
  13. ↑ Press release of the UID on their board elections and their renaming. In: uetd.org. Retrieved September 12, 2018 .
  14. ↑ TerraVeri: Fatih Zingal at Maybrit Illner. June 4, 2016, accessed September 12, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Mustafa Celik: Shortcut: Fatih Zingal at Anne Will 17 07 2016 attempted coup in Turkey. July 19, 2016, accessed September 12, 2018 .
  16. ↑ NSU trial: That's what Turks and Kurds say after the verdict . In: HuffPost Germany . July 11, 2018 ( huffingtonpost.de [accessed September 12, 2018]).
  17. ↑ Stefan Prinz: Solingen people understand Mesut Özil. In: Solinger-Tageblatt.de. July 23, 2018, accessed September 12, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Two kinds of measures for appearances by politicians from Turkey . In: DailySabah . ( dailysabah.com [accessed September 12, 2018]).
  19. ↑ Fatih Zingal. Retrieved September 12, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior (ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht 2014 . S. 128 ( verfassungsschutz.de [PDF; 4.1 MB ; accessed on November 1, 2019]).
  21. ↑ UETD spokesman Fatih Zingal gives a lecture in Dortmund - more participants than expected at SPD head Schulz . In: DailySabah . ( dailysabah.com [accessed September 12, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Zingal, Fatih
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen