Turgut Yüksel

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Turgut Yüksel (2019)

Turgut Yüksel (born September 2, 1956 in Pülümür ) is a German politician ( SPD ) of Turkish-Kurdish origin. He is a member of the Hessian state parliament .

Life

Yüksel has lived in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1978 and has been a German citizen since 1996. In 1980 he went on a 46-day hunger strike to show his protest against the Turkish military junta.

Yüksel studied sociology and economics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and graduated in 1988 with a diploma in sociology.

He is an Alevi Kurd.

He is married and has two sons.

politics

Yüksel has been a member of the SPD since 1981. Between 1992 and 1996 he was an elected member of the local foreign representation in Frankfurt am Main. From 1997 to 2014 he was a member of the city council of Frankfurt am Main , where he was the spokesman for migration and integration policy for the SPD parliamentary group.

In the state elections in January 2008, he was elected to the Hessian state parliament via the state list . After the early state elections in Hesse in 2009 , he left the state parliament.

From 2009 to 2013 he was a member of the German Islam Conference (DIK).

In the state elections in Hesse in 2013 , he ran in the constituency of Frankfurt am Main III . Here he lost to Ralf-Norbert Bartelt . However, he succeeded in re-entering the state parliament via a list of the party. Turgut Yüksel is currently a member of the cultural policy committee, the petitions committee and the sub-committee for expellees, resettlers, refugees and reparations in the Hessian state parliament.

Together with Mürvet Öztürk, Turgut Yüksel was the spokesman for the "No Initiative Hessen", which campaigned against the constitutional referendum in Turkey and a. with home visits in Frankfurt informed about its consequences for democracy and human rights.

In the state elections in Hesse in 2018 (October 28, 2018), Yüksel ran again for the Frankfurt constituency of Frankfurt am Main III. Despite the losses of the SPD, he again succeeded in entering the state parliament.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurds are mostly Alevis. August 27, 2008, accessed May 26, 2020 .
  2. ^ Turgut Yüksel | Hessian state parliament. Retrieved September 5, 2018 .
  3. ↑ FOCUS Online: Turks in Hesse start "No" campaign . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on September 5, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Yüksel, Turgut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish-German politician (SPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Pülümür , Turkey