Tayfun Keltek

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Tayfun Keltek (born April 20, 1947 in Koyulhisar , Sivas Province ) is a German politician ( SPD ) of Turkish descent.

Life

Keltek finished his training as a qualified sports teacher at the sports university in Ankara (Turkey) in 1969 . The following year he moved to Germany for a doctorate and began postgraduate studies at the German Sport University in Cologne . Since 1974 he has been working as a qualified sports teacher at the Realschule Köln / Deutz. For about ten years he also acted as a moderator in teacher training. After joining the Education and Science Union (GEW) in 1979, he was elected a member of the board from 1981 to 1983. From 1979 to 1982 he was chairman of the Turkish Teachers' Association in Cologne, and from 1983 to 1987 he was chairman of the German-Turkish Association of Cologne eV

Act

Keltek campaigned for the integration of immigrants into German society at an early stage . Since 1984 he has been an elected member of the Cologne Advisory Council for Foreigners (since then chairman or deputy chairman of this body). In 1987 he was co-founder and chairman of the state working group for foreigners' councils in North Rhine-Westphalia (LAGA-NRW). In 1996 this organization was transformed and received a higher legal status in NRW. Tayfun Keltek was co-founder and since then chairman of the state working group of municipal migrants' representations in North Rhine- Westphalia (LAGA NRW), which has been called the NRW Integration Council since 2010 .

Until 1999 he was a member of the Radio Cologne association. From 1999 to 2003 he was a member of the broadcasting commission of the State Broadcasting Authority (LfR) NRW and the media commission of the State Authority for Media (LfM) NRW. Since December 2nd, 2003 he has been a member of the WDR Broadcasting Council.

He has been a member of the SPD since 1985. In 1997 he became head of the migration working group in the subdistrict of the SPD Cologne. Since 2001 he has been a member of the migration council of the SPD NRW regional executive committee and a member of the executive committee of the sub-district SPD Cologne. Since 2003 he has been a member of the State Prevention Council NRW. By accepting German citizenship in 1995, he was able to run for the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia in the constituency of Cologne II ( Lindenthal district ) in 2005 , but did not manage to move in. In 2010 he went back to the constituency of Cologne IV (boroughs Chorweiler and Nippes ), but lost to Christian Möbius .

criticism

In 2012, Keltek was criticized for not considering a study of the right-wing extremist Turkish Gray Wolves to be out of place »at the wrong time« and the »current concern« by the nail bomb attacks on Turkish fellow citizens by the NSU , "because the danger posed by Turkish people Right-wing extremists are not that big and such a study is "not absolutely necessary" in times of empty coffers ". In 2019, Keltek gained media attention as the state chairman of the NRW Integration Council for his proposal to abolish English lessons in primary schools in favor of Turkish, Polish or Russian for children with a migration background. Primary school lessons for children with a migrant background should be expanded. With the background that an improvement in the bilingual vocabulary especially for children with a migration background has a more favorable effect on the cognitive processes . This language-educational approach is therefore significantly more advantageous for children with a migration background than a trilingualism with undifferentiated vocabulary. The generalization process of memory could thus be significantly improved in children with a migration background and thus contribute to a significant improvement in school performance.

Honor

For his various voluntary activities in the field of the integration of immigrants, he was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit on October 10, 2000 by the then Federal President Johannes Rau .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ Andreas Rossmann: Afraid of the gray wolf? In: FAZ.net . February 16, 2012, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  4. ↑ https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article188477813/An-Grundschulen-NRW-Integrationsrat-will-Englisch-Unterricht-durch-Tuerkisch-ersetzen.html
  5. ^ SR Schroeder, V. Marian: Cognitive Consequences of Trilingualism. In: The international journal of bilingualism: cross-disciplinary, cross-linguistic studies of language behavior. Volume 21, number 6, 2017, pp. 754-773, doi : 10.1177 / 1367006916637288 , PMID 29151803 , PMC 5693318 (free full text).
  6. ↑ K. Mieszkowska, M. Łuniewska, J. Kołak, A. Kacprzak, Z. Wodniecka, E. Haman: Home Language Will Not Take Care of Itself: Vocabulary Knowledge in Trilingual Children in the United Kingdom. In: Frontiers in psychology. Volume 8, 2017, p. 1358, doi : 10.3389 / fpsyg.2017.01358 , PMID 28848473 , PMC 5554400 (free full text).
personal data
SURNAME Keltek, Tayfun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Koyulhisar , Turkey