Nebahat Güçlü

Nebahat Güçlü (born September 10, 1965 in Kayseri , Turkey ) is a German politician ( SPD , formerly Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). She was a member of the Hamburg Parliament from 2004 to 2010 and again from 2015 to 2020 , of which she was Vice President from 2008 to 2010. In April 2015, after a controversial appearance in front of a Turkish nationalist organization, she left the Greens and joined the SPD in August 2018.

Life

Güçlü moved to Hamburg in 1970 and, after graduating from high school in 1986, studied German and political science at the University of Hamburg until 1991 at the Lohmühlen- Aufbaugymnasium . She is divorced, has a daughter and has been a German citizen since 1995.

From 1986 to 1993 she was a socio-pedagogical employee of the international women's meeting place INCI e. V. and from 1993 to 1999 she was head of social counseling there. From 2000 to 2010 she was the managing director of the Intercultural Meeting Center (IKB) e. V. and from 2011 to 2015 she was project manager at the German Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband for advice and support to migrant organizations.

She sat from March 2004 to April 2010 for the Greens in the Hamburg Parliament . In the parliamentary group, she was the specialist spokesperson for migration, refugees and foreigners. On May 29, 2008 she was elected Vice President of the Hamburg Parliament. On April 15, 2010, she resigned her mandate for personal reasons and thus also resigned as Vice President.

From 2012 to 2017 Güçlü was chair of the Turkish community in Hamburg and the surrounding area .

In the 2015 mayor election , Güçlü won a seat in the Hamburg parliament with 5,536 votes on the state list of the Greens. The green parliamentary group was constituted after controversies over a speech in front of a Turkish nationalist organization without Güçlü, on April 1, 2015, they announced their departure from the party. From then on, she sat as a non-party member of the parliament. She no longer belongs to the citizenship elected in 2020.

In August 2018 she became a member of the SPD.

criticism

In 2005 Güçlü accused the Islam-critical sociologist and author Necla Kelek of "exaggeration" because " honor killings have [nothing] to do with the Turkish-Islamic identity" . Kelek only “discovered a niche in the market and wants to get money out of it.” On the occasion of an “honor killing” in Hamburg in May 2008, Kelek stated in a comment in the Hamburger Abendblatt : “Today she speaks very differently and pretends to have the topic in 2005 discovered and appears as the savior of the forced-married " . However, in her criticism, Kelek overlooks the fact that Güçlü, for example, on April 2, 2005, denounced the trivialization of “violence against women, forced marriage and honor killings” in a name contribution for the Hamburger Abendblatt under the title “Forced marriage!” And improved protection for those affected demanded. Before that, she had already submitted a small request to the Hamburg Senate on March 24, 2005, and a corresponding application in June 2005 to the citizenship.

On January 18, 2015, Güçlü appeared as a speaker at an event organized by the Federation of Turkish Democratic Idealist Associations in Germany (ADÜTDF) in Hamburg. The association forms the main platform of the gray wolves in Germany and has been listed in the report on the protection of the constitution since 2004 because of alien extremism. According to his own statement, Güçlü was not aware who was behind the ADÜTDF, especially since the invitation was only verbal. Despite criticism from clubs and the party leadership, Güçlü refused to withdraw her candidacy at number 25 on the state list for the 2015 general election. Thereupon the state board of the Greens Hamburg initiated a party exclusion procedure against them, which was decided before the regional arbitration court. It decided against her exclusion at the end of March.

At the end of March 2015, the German Paritätische Wohlfahrtsverband in Hamburg resigned Güçlü's job as a migration officer at the end of April without giving any reason. Güçlü had been working at the umbrella association for independent welfare since June 2011, advising and supporting migrant self-organizations. She filed a dismissal protection suit against the decision . The process ended in a settlement.

In autumn 2016 she was criticized for her contacts with the chairman of the Ottomans Germania Hamburg.

Web links

• Personal website
• Member profile of Nebahat Güçlü ( Memento from February 29, 2020 in the Internet Archive )
• Nebahat Güçlü on parliamentwatch.de
• Nebahat Güçlü as a fighter against sexism, racism and discrimination

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nebahat Güçlü resigns from her mandate. ( Memento of April 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), press release of the GAL parliamentary group of April 15, 2010.
2. ↑ No space for Erdoğan taz.de, April 7, 2017
3. ↑ Preliminary results of the 2015 state election: Elected candidates on the website of the North Statistics Office, accessed on February 17, 2015
4. ^ Peter Ulrich Meyer: Greens politician Güclü remains non-attached for the time being . Hamburger Abendblatt . March 24, 2015. Accessed March 27, 2015.
5. ↑ Güçlü leaves the Greens . North German Broadcasting . April 1, 2015. Archived from the original on April 3, 2015. Retrieved on April 1, 2015.
6. ↑ Preliminary result of the 2020 parliamentary elections: elected members of the 22nd Hamburg parliament. Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein - Institution of Public Law - (Statistics Office North)., February 24, 2020, accessed on March 10, 2020 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Ex-Greens becomes comrade taz.de, August 2, 2018
8. ↑ Necla Kelek : "Honor killers" are not allowed to hide behind Islam. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . May 20, 2008.
9. ↑ Nebahat Güçlü: Outlaw Forced Marriage! In: Hamburger Abendblatt , April 2, 2005.
10. ↑ Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, 18th electoral period: Small written question from the MPs Nebahat Güçlü (GAL) of March 24, 2005 and the Senate's answer. Re: Outlawing forced marriage and honor killings , printed matter 18/1991 of April 1, 2005
11. ↑ Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, 18th electoral period: Application by the MPs Nebahat Güçlü, Dr. Verena Lappe, Antje Möller, Katja Husen, Martina Gregersen, Christa Goetsch (GAL) and parliamentary group. Re: fighting violence against women sustainably: outlawing forced marriage - preventing forced marriage. Printed matter 18/2414 of June 8, 2005.
12. ↑ Brochure "Turks and Germans in Hamburg: Together for Democracy!" , State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, April 2005 ( Link )
13. ^ Christoph Twickel: Among wolves . , in: Die Zeit from March 23, 2015.
14. ↑ Green candidate appears with right-wing extremists. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , January 26, 2015.
15. ^ Nebahat Güclü will not be thrown out . the daily newspaper . March 21, 2015. Accessed March 22, 2015.
16. ↑ Güçlü flies out taz.de, March 31, 2015
17. ↑ The strange closeness between the politician and the rocker welt.de, November 18, 2016
18. ^ In the right light zeit.de, December 5, 2016