Mürvet Öztürk

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mürvet Öztürk (2016)

Mürvet Öztürk (born August 29, 1972 in Korschenbroich ) is a Hessian politician (non-party, formerly Die Grünen ) and former non-attached member of the Hessian state parliament .

family

Mürvet Öztürk comes from a Kurdish family of Alevi faith. She is married and lives in Wetzlar .

education and profession

Mürvet Öztürk completed an apprenticeship as a wholesale and foreign trade clerk and then studied Islamic studies and history at the University of Cologne .

Between 2001 and 2004 she was the financial coordinator and project assistant for the Heinrich Böll Foundation, which is close to the Greens . From 2004 to 2005 she worked for the parliamentary group of the Greens as a consultant for Turkey policy. Since 2006 she has been the assistant to Heide Rühle , MEP.

politics

Mürvet Öztürk was a member of the Greens from 2001 to 2017 and was particularly active there in migration policy. She has been a member of the Lahn-Dill district council since 2006 , where she was the leader of the Greens.

In the state elections in Hesse in 2008 and in the state elections in Hesse in 2009 , she was elected to the Hessian state parliament via the state list. In the state parliament she was the spokesperson for integration and migration of the Green parliamentary group.

She was a member of the following committees and bodies:

  • Legal and Integration Committee
  • Home Committee
  • Petitions Committee
  • Member of the hardship commission
  • Member of the Study Commission on Migration and Integration

At the beginning of 2011 she made headlines with the demand to abolish the term "integration". The terms “integration” and “migration background” as used by Thilo Sarrazin are “discriminatory and racist”. Due to the publications in the media, she issued a press release on January 20, 2011, in which she weakened and explained her statements.

In the state elections in Hesse in 2013 , she also ran in the Lahn-Dill II constituency and got 7.7% of the first votes . As in the previous elections, she was able to move into the state parliament via a list. On September 8, 2015, she resigned from the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group in protest against the refugee policy of the Black-Green state government . In May 2017, she resigned from her party after 16 years. She announced that she would continue to exercise her state parliament mandate until the end of the legislative period.

In February 2017 she started a Hayir campaign (Hayir = no) in Hesse with the SPD member of the state parliament Turgut Yüksel on the Erdogan referendum on constitutional changes for a presidential dictatorship . At the end of the electoral period, she left the state parliament after the state elections in Hesse in 2018 .

Web links

Commons : Mürvet Öztürk  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article12210638/Gruene-Oeztuerk- sucht-Abschendung-der- Integration.html
  2. ^ Press release from January 20, 2011
  3. ↑ Article in the FAZ: Greens MP leaves their group
  4. ↑ Opinion on leaving the party - Mürvet Öztürk. Retrieved May 29, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Turks in Hesse start the “No” campaign Focus on February 15, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Öztürk, Mürvet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (The Greens), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Korschenbroich