Hakkı Keskin

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Hakkı Keskin (born February 12, 1943 in Maçka , Turkey ) is a German politician of Turkish origin.

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Erzincan in 1964 , Keskin went to Germany and acquired the German university entrance qualification here in Hamburg in 1966 . He then completed a degree in political science at the Free University of Berlin , which he in 1977 with the promotion of Dr. rer. pole. with the work Debt capital and underdevelopment, especially using the example of Turkey. finished. He then returned to Turkey for two years as a planning advisor on the staff of Turkish Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit . From 1980 to 1982, Keskin was a research assistant at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences for Administration and Justice . 1982 he became Professor of Political and migration policy at the Department of Social Education of the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg . From 1995 to 2005, Keskin was the founding chairman of the Turkish community in Germany .

Hakkı Keskin is married and has two children.

politics

Keskin was a member of the SPD until he resigned in June 2005 in protest against government policy.

From 1993 to 1997 Keskin was a member of the Hamburg parliament . This made him the first member of a state parliament of Turkish origin .

From 2005 to 2009 he was a member of the German Bundestag with four other colleagues from Turkey. Here he was EU Enlargement commissioner of the Left faction . Keskin entered the Bundestag via the Berlin Open List of the Left Party.PDS . For the 2009 Bundestag election , Der Linken did not put him up as a constituency candidate or on a state list.

At the beginning of May 2015, Keskin announced his accession to the Turkish "Patriotic Party" ( Vatan Partisi ) in front of around 1,000 supporters in the Bergen City Hall near Frankfurt / Main . Keskin was appointed vice chairman. In June 2017, Keskin resigned from the Vatan Partisi after a disagreement with Dogu Perinçek .

Controversy

At the beginning of 2007, a public dispute over Keskin's stance on the Armenian genocide intensified . Keskin had repeatedly questioned or relativized it. In addition, on May 9, 2007 , Keskin and Diether Dehm published a press release on behalf of the left faction on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict , in which the "unconditional withdrawal of the occupying forces of Armenia [from Karabakh] and the restoration of the full territorial state integrity of Azerbaijan as an indispensable prerequisite for a peaceful conflict resolution ”and the unrestricted right of return of the displaced Azerbaijani refugees. This press release, which was not coordinated with the left-wing parliamentary group, caused dissatisfaction within the party. The parliamentarian Ulla Jelpke complained about an "extremely one-sided presentation" of the conflict. The Central Council of Armenians in Germany criticized Keskin's stance on the issue of the Armenian genocide: Politicians like him would prevent "at least the Turks living in Germany from critically examining the darkest chapter of Turkish history."

With regard to the headscarf question , Keskin takes a position that, in contrast to German association Islam, shows a more critical attitude towards religious symbols. For Keskin, the wearing of the headscarf by teachers and, in addition, demands for gender segregation in swimming and physical education classes have nothing to do with Islam, which is by its nature "very tolerant".

Works

  • Turkey. From the Ottoman Empire to the nation state . History of an underdevelopment. Olle & Wolter, Berlin 1978; 1981 (updated), ISBN 3-88395-708-9 .
  • Germany as a new home. A balance sheet of integration policy . Verlag für Sozialwissenschaft, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14673-4 .
  • German-Turkish perspectives . Wochenschau-Verlag, Schwalbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-89974-474-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nick Brauns: "Querfront auf Turkish": Former PDS politician Hakki Keskin shows his colors and changes to the ultra-nationalist "Patriotic Party" of Turkey , Junge Welt, May 6, 2015.
  2. ↑ Erika Steinbach : Left faction mocks human rights. In: CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag. January 5, 2007, accessed March 29, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Björn Hengst: The genocide debate triggers a dispute in the left-wing faction. In: Spiegel Online. January 9, 2007, accessed March 29, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Diether Dehm, Hakkı Keskin: Solving the Karabakh conflict peacefully. (No longer available online.) In: Fraktion DIE LINKE. in the Bundestag. May 9, 2007, archived from the original on March 31, 2016 ; Retrieved March 29, 2011 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.linksfraktion.de
  5. ^ Matthias Meisner: Little Nagorno Karabakh, big trouble. In: Der Tagesspiegel. June 24, 2007, accessed March 29, 2011 .
  6. ^ Symbols and Religious Peace. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. January 19, 2004, accessed March 29, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Keskin, Hakkı
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (left), MdHB, MdB
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Maçka (Hamsiköy) , Trabzon Province, Turkey