Joost Lagendijk

Jan Joost Lagendijk (born June 8, 1957 in Roosendaal ) is a Dutch politician of the GroenLinks party . He has lived in Turkey since 2009.

Life

After finishing school, Lagendijk studied history at the University of Utrecht and graduated in 1985. In addition to his studies, Lagendijk worked as a salesman in the book trade of the Van Gennep publishing house . Lagendijk got involved politically and became a member of the Pacifist Socialist Party (PSP) and he succeeded in entering the Second Chamber of the States General . Lagendijk was elected vice-chairman of the PSP and was the international secretary of the PSP from 1987 to 1991. Politically, he accompanied the merger of the PSP to form the GroenLinks party , of which he was international secretary from 1991 to 1994. Lagerdijk founded De Helling magazine with others in 1987 , for which he wrote articles until 1994. Since 1994 he has worked as a writer for Babylon-De Geus .

In 1998 he succeeded in entering the European Parliament as a member of the GroenLinks , to which he was a member until 2009. From 2002 he was Vice-President of the Turkey Delegation of the European Parliament.

Lagendijk has been married to the Turkish journalist Nevin Sungur since October 28, 2006. The wedding took place under high media observation in Istanbul in the Hotel Pera Palas . While Lagendijk is rather unknown to the public in the Netherlands and can live anonymously in Brussels, he is considered a popular hero with rock star status in Turkey, "Mr. Europe", "son-in-law" or "brother-in-law of all Turks" and "friend of Turkey" ". Since July 2009 he has been a consultant at the Istanbul Policy Center of Sabancı University in Istanbul and is a member of the advisory board of the European Policy Center think tank and the European Transatlantic Advisory Board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation . He has been a columnist for Today's Zaman and Zaman newspapers since October 2010 .

Political positions

In the eighties and nineties Lagendijk had contacts with Kurdish and Turkish refugees in the Netherlands, was a declared opponent of Turkey and called for a holiday boycott against the country. His views changed when he joined the EP's Turkish delegation in 2002. Since 2001, Lagendijk has published three books with his EP colleague Jan Marinus Wiersma on the enlargement and foreign policy of the European Union.

In 2006, Lagendijk criticized the position of the Turkish military in Turkey. Like the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk , he was then sued by Turkish ultra-nationalists for insulting Turkishness (Art. 301 TCK). The proceedings against the MEPs were dropped.

Works

• Brussels Warsaw Kiev; Op zoek naar de borders van de Europese Unie. (in collaboration with Jan Marinus Wiersma) Amsterdam 2001 ISBN 9789050185653
• Na Mars komt Venus: een Europees antwoord op Bush (in collaboration with Jan Marinus Wiersma) Balans - Amsterdam 2004, ISBN 90-5018-715-3
• Sturen bij de Moslimburen: Hoe Europa de democratie kan bevorderen (jointly with Jan Marinus Wiersma ) Bakker - Amsterdam 2007, ISBN 978-90-351-3197-2
• Travels among Europe's Muslim Neighbors: The Quest for Democracy (PDF, 635 kB) (English translation of "Sturen bij de Moslimburen") Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS) Brussels, March 2008. ISBN 978-92-9079-778-4

Web links

• Official website of Joost Lagendijk
• GroenLinks: Joost Lagendijk
• Entry on Joost Lagendijk in the Members' database of the European Parliament
• Joost Lagendijk on Twitter

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lagendijk announces plans to teach at Sabancı University  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Today's Zaman December 5th, 2008  
2. ^ Sürpriz aşk (Turkish) Hürriyet April 23, 2006
3. ↑ ^{a b} Joost Lagendijk, zwager van alle Turken Report on Joost Lagendijk in Vrij Nederland , August 2007
4. ↑ ^{a b} The Sacred Cow of Turkishness Jungle World No. 2, January 11, 2006
5. ↑ Joost Lagendijk, Senior Associate ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Istanbul Policy Center of Sabancı University  
6. ↑ ADVISORY COUNCIL European Policy Center
7. ↑ Members of the Europa-Transatlantik Advisory Board  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 66 kB) of the Heinrich Böll Foundation . The specialist advisory boards of the Heinrich Böll Foundation are voluntary bodies. The members are experts who advise and decide on the content of programs and projects (see also §9 of the statutes) [1]  
8. ↑ What is happening in the Netherlands? (1) ( Memento of the original from May 3, 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. Columnist JOOST LAGENDIJK, Sundays Zaman, October 17, 2010  
9. ↑ Vrijheid van meningsuiting talk Lagendijk niet te vervolgen ( Memento of the original of July 6, 2011 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. February 8, 2006