Fatma Koşer Kaya
Fatma Koşer Kaya (born February 20, 1968 in Çarşamba , Turkey ) is a Dutch lawyer and politician of Turkish origin. From 2004 to 2012 and from 2015 to 2017 she represented the social-liberal party D66 in the Second Chamber of the States General .
biography
At the age of six, Koşer Kaya emigrated with her mother, three brothers and two sisters from Turkey to the Dutch city of Bergen op Zoom . Between 1987 and 1993 she studied law at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands , after having worked as a lawyer and court clerk for some time. In 1998 she joined the Dutch Trade Union Confederation ( FNV ) as a lawyer . As a lawyer and criminal defense attorney, Koser Kaya mainly focuses on labor, social security and private international law.
politics
On September 8, 2004, she came to the Second Chamber as the successor to Francine Giskes . In the parliamentary elections in 2006 she was sixth in the list of candidates for the D66, which had been reduced to three seats, but was elected to parliament with 34,564 preferential votes at Bert Bakker's expense . In 2010 she was re-elected to fifth place on the list. In the early parliamentary elections in September 2012 , her party was able to improve to 12 seats, but Koşer Kaya lost her seat with 13th place on the list. From 2013 to 2014 she was an alderman in Wassenaar . On August 19, 2015, she returned to the Second Chamber as a successor, to which she was a member until the end of the legislative period in March 2017. In Parliament, she mainly dealt with the portfolios of finance, social affairs, youth and family, health, common good and sport, and emancipation.
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| SURNAME | Koşer Kaya, Fatma |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch lawyer and politician of Turkish origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th February 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Çarşamba , Turkey |