Feleknas Uca

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Feleknas Uca (2004)

Feleknas Uca (born September 17, 1976 in Celle ) is a German politician (PDS; Die Linke ; HDP ) with Kurdish roots.

Life and work

The Yazidi Kurdish woman held various positions in the PDS , for example she was a member of the Lower Saxony state board in 1998, co-founder of the Celle district association , contact person for the PDS European group for North Rhine-Westphalia and the treasurer of the European group.

Since 1999 she has been deputy chairman of the intergroup against racism and xenophobia . It also maintains a foundation to promote the rights of women and children.

During the Iraq crisis in 2014 , Uca worked as a helper in a camp for Yazidi refugees in the Turkish city of Silopi .

MEPs

Feleknas Uca was a MEP for the PDS or Die Linke in the GUE / NGL parliamentary group from 1999 to 2009 . At the age of 22 she was elected sixth on the PDS electoral list in the EU Parliament . As a MEP, she was a member of the Development Committee , deputy to the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality , deputy to the Subcommittee on Human Rights and a member of the delegation to the EU - Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee .

Member of the Turkish Parliament

Uca was elected to parliament for the Kurdish party Halkların Demokratie Partisi (HDP) in the constituency of Diyarbakır in the parliamentary elections in Turkey on June 7, 2015 . She was re-elected in November 2015 and June 2018.

Commitment against female genital mutilation

As a member of the European Parliament and beyond, Uca worked together with the women's rights organization Terre des Femmes to fight against practices of female genital mutilation .

She commissioned the organization to create a publication in 2005 with the title “Study on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)”. The content of this work includes information on the dissemination and socio-cultural background of the practice, an overview of the legal situation in Africa and Europe, the presentation of previous solutions and recommendations for joint engagement at European level.

In December 2005 and January 2006 Uca solicited donations for the Terre des Femmes supported project Network Against Female Genital Mutilation (NAFGEM), which works for the abolition of female genital mutilation in Tanzania .

On the occasion of the International Day “Zero Tolerance against Female Genital Mutilation” Uca declared in February 2008 that female genital mutilation is an “extreme form of violence against women and girls”. In twenty-eight African countries this “particularly extreme form of violence” is used to control the female body. It is "our task" to fight against this "human rights violation, in which the girls are inflicted lifelong physical and mental wounds". However, the “power of patriarchal structures and established traditions” must be taken into account: Good aid programs ensure that the people affected decided against the rite of genital mutilation out of conviction and instead looked for “alternative practices” that “took care of the female body Protect integrity ”. A change of heart can never be imposed from the outside, but must happen through awareness raising, education and medical training. Education enables girls to know their rights and to question their role in society. The main task of development programs in this regard is the “promotion of reproductive health” and the protection and strengthening of women's rights worldwide.

In March 2008, together with spokespersons for the feminist women's working group LISA and a representative from Terre des Femmes, Uca condemned the comparison of injuries caused by genital mutilation with potential injuries in daycare , which Christa Müller , the left-wing spokesperson for family policy and chairwoman of the anti-circumcision-critical association , Christa Müller , previously reported in did a Spiegel interview.

In March 2010 the Feleknas Uca Foundation organized a reading with the Somali author Fadumo Korn in cooperation with the Celler Frauenhaus eV and Terre des Femmes .

Prosecution

Feleknas Uca was arrested on November 14, 2012 while entering Turkey at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul. She carried around 250 packets of vitamin B1 drugs , duty unpaid , which are used to limit the chronic damage caused by hunger strikes. She is accused of holding a leadership role in the Koma Civakên Kurdistan .

After an interrogation, she was expelled to Germany.

In July 2018, investigations into organizational propaganda were initiated against Uca for allegedly attending the funeral of a PKK fighter.

Awards

  • Feleknas Uca was awarded the Clara Zetkin Prize of Honor 2017

Web links

Commons : Feleknas Uca  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eva Marie Kogel and Alfred Hackensberger: The hero of the Yazidis is a German . In: welt.de, August 17, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2014.
  2. ^ " Moving the peace process forward" , Interview, Deutsche Welle , June 10, 2015
  3. ↑ Feleknas Uca, who was born in Celle, remains a member of the Turkish parliament . In: CELLEHEUTE . June 24, 2018 ( celleheute.de [accessed July 21, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Feleknas Uca Foundation: Genital Mutilation ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ Feleknas Uca: Aid project against genital mutilation in Tanzania ( Memento from July 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), press release from December 20, 2005.
  6. ↑ Feleknas Uca: Help prevent genital mutilation! ( Memento from August 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), press release from January 16, 2006.
  7. ↑ Feleknas Uca: Female genital mutilation is an extreme form of violence against women and girls , press release from February 6, 2008.
  8. ↑ Feleknas Uca, Iris Gramberg, Nanni Rietz-Heering & Eveline Engelhardt-Mayer (spokespersons LISA Lower Saxony Feminist State Working Group of the Left Party in Lower Saxony), Elke Höher (member of Terre des Femmes and LiSa Lower Saxony): Joint press release on Christa Müller ( Memento of February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), press release of March 18, 2008.
  9. ↑ Female genital mutilation violates the human RIGHT to health and the protection of physical integrity. In: Online newspaper stark-links , March 8, 2010.
  10. ↑ Uca 'KCK yöneticisi' olduğu iddiasıyla gözaltına alındı In: radikal, November 15, 2012.
  11. ↑ Turkey expels German politician In: stern.de, November 16, 2012.
  12. ↑ clara-zetkin-women-award 2017
personal data
SURNAME Uca, Feleknas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Turkish politician (PDS; Die Linke; HDP), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle