Özcan Mutlu
 Özcan Mutlu     | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ||||||||||||||
| Born | January 10, 1968 Kelkit, Gümüşhane Province, Turkey | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | German | |||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Berlin Institute of Technology, Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin | |||||||||||||
| Member of | American Council on Germany/Young Leaders/2000, Atlantik-Brücke, Marshall Memorial Fellowship | |||||||||||||
| Party | Alliance 90/The Greens | |||||||||||||
Transatlantic German Green politician of Turkish heritage.
| ||||||||||||||
Özcan Mutlu (born January 10, 1968) in Kelkit, Gümüşhane Province, Turkey, is a Kurdish-German[1] politician of the Green Party.
He is a member of a number of transatlantic networks, including being a Young Leader of the American Council on Germany, Young Leader of the Atlantik-Brücke (2000); and a Marshall Memorial Fellowship from the German Marshall Fund.
Early years
Mutlu has lived in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg since 1973 and received his naturalization in 1990. He finished his training as an information electrician at the Berlin Institute of Technology from September 1985 to February 1989. Afterwards, he studied electrical engineering at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin from 1989 to 1993 and graduated as engineer of communication and electronics. He combined an internship with a stay abroad in Omaha, (USA). After this, he worked in a telecommunication company as engineer from 1993 to 1999.
Political career
Mutlu joined the Green Party in 1990, and was elected into the district assembly of Kreuzberg. He entered the regional parliament Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin in 1999 representing the district Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. He was re-elected in 2006 and 2011. During this period, he served in a number of parliamentary commissions, responsible particularly for policies of education, integration and migration as well as policies for Europe and Turkey.
Mutlu was nominated by his party for the 2009 federal election; however, he missed the entry into the Bundestag. Following the 2013 federal election, Mutlu won a seat in the Bundestag. He was one of the eleven politicians of Turkish descent who entered the federal parliament, including seven women.[2] In parliament, he served on the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment. On the committee, he was his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on citizen participation.
In the 2017 federal election, Mutlu again ran. However, he once again had to admit defeat to his SPD competitor, Eva Högl, and was no longer able to enter the Bundestag via the state list. For the 2021 federal election, he lost the internal party vote for the nomination in the Berlin-Mitte constituency against Hanna Steinmüller and also two votes for the nomination on the state list of the Berlin Greens. He had previously been accused of deliberately recruiting members to join the party just to help him nominate and paying their membership fees.[3]
Since 2018 he is Senior Fellow at the Istanbul Policy Center (Sabanci University]]), and in 2019 Senior Fellow at the Stiftung Mercator.[4]
Other activities
- Bilingual German-Turkish Europe School, Founding Member
- Sister city agreement between Kreuzberg and Kadıköy, Istanbul, Founding Member
- German Marshall Fund, Marshall-Memorial Fellow
- Young leader of the Atlantik-Brücke (2000)
- Israeli-German-Young-Leader of the Bertelsmann Stiftung (2007)
References
- ↑ https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article230580574/Der-zweifelhafte-Wahlkampf-des-Gruenen-Politikers-Oezcan-Mutlu.html?service=amp
- ↑ http://m.dunya.com/dunya/turk-kokenli-vekillerin-yukselisi-haberi-222435
- ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/erschuetterungen-bei-berliner-gruenen-niederlage-fuer-oezcan-mutlu-nach-mauschelei-vorwuerfen/26241818.html
- ↑ https://www.mutlu.de/ueber-mich/
This page imported content from Wikipedia on 07.07.2021.Wikipedia is not affiliated with Wikispooks. Original page source here
