Sevim Dağdelen

Sevim Dağdelen (born 4 September 1975) is a German politician and a member of the Left Party (die Linke).

Sevim Dağdelen
Sevim Dağdelen in 2013.
Deputy Leader of the Left Party in the Bundestag
Assumed office
24 October 2017
Serving with Caren Lay
LeaderKatja Kipping
Bernd Riexinger
Preceded byHeike Hänsel
Member of the Bundestag
for North Rhine-Westphalia
Assumed office
18 October 2005
ConstituencyLeft Party List
Personal details
Born (1975-09-04) 4 September 1975
Duisburg, Germany
CitizenshipGerman
Political partyLeft Party
Alma mater
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionJurist, journalist
Websitewww.sevimdagdelen.de

Early years

Born in Duisburg to Kurdish immigrants,[1] Sevim Dağdelen finished high school in 1997, and studied law first at the University of Marburg and then at the University of Adelaide, Australia and later at the University of Cologne.[2] She never finished her law studies and subsequently dropped out to pursue her political career.[3]

She worked as a journalist for the Turkish newspaper Evrensel and German publications Tatsachen and Junge Stimme. She was also active as a translator.[2]

Career

After joining the Left Party, Dağdelen became a member of the regional-level party council of North Rhine-Westphalia and the federal student agency from 1996–1998. From 1993–2001, she was a member of the federal youth commission. Since 2005, she has been a member of the German Bundestag.[4]

Dağdelen participated in the State dinner with Angela Merkel at the White House in June 2011.[5]

In 2012 Dağdelen faced criticism for signing a controversial pamphlet accusing the U.S. of preparing war against Syria and Iran. Dağdelen is also the only politician to have visited Julian Assange while he was at the Embassy of Ecuador in the United Kingdom.[6]

Dağdelen was re-elected into the Bundestag for the fourth time following the 2017 election.[4]

She is currently presiding the German-Turkish Parliamentarian group in the Bundestag.[4]

She is known to be a supporter of the Kurdish People's Protections Units (YPG) as she showed the flag of the YPG in the Bundestag which in Germany is forbidden.[7] She also opposes the German foreign policy regarding Turkey, who attacked the YPG in Afrin. Her appearance at a regional IG Metall congress in 2018 lead to a controversy, as Turks made a social media campaign to end their membership in the workers union.[8]

See also

References
  1. "Erdoğan-Unterstützer rufen zu IG-Metall-Austritt auf". www.t-online.de (in German). Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  2. "Türk kökenli vekillerin yükselişi". Dünya (in Turkish). 23 September 2013. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
  3. Küpper, Mechthild; Berlin. "Linkspartei: Aus dem Reich der Schattengewächse". Faz.net. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  4. "Deutscher Bundestag - Sevim Dağdelen". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  5. "Expected Attendees at Tonight's State Dinner". Whitehouse.gov. 7 June 2011. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  6. "German left-wing MP Sevim Dagdelen visits Julian Assange at Ecuador embassy". Herald Sun. 3 September 2012. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
  7. ONLINE, ZEIT (21 November 2017). "Sevim Dagdelen: Abgeordnete zeigt verbotene Kurdenflagge im Bundestag". Die Zeit (in German). ISSN 0044-2070. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  8. "Erdoğan-Unterstützer rufen zu IG-Metall-Austritt auf". www.t-online.de (in German). Retrieved 1 March 2020.
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