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Özcan Mutlu | |
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.jpg) Mutlu in 2010 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2013–2017 | |
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| Born | (1968-01-10)January 10, 1968 (age 57) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Political party | Alliance '90/The Greens |
| Children | Two |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Electrical engineering |
| Website | www |
Özcan Mutlu (born January 10, 1968) is aTurkish-German former politician from theGreen Party. In January 2025, he left the party because of "toxic power structures" in the Berlin regional association of the Greens.[1]
Mutlu has lived in theBerlin district ofKreuzberg since 1973. He received his naturalization in 1990.
He completed his training as an information electrician atTechnische Universität Berlin from September 1985 to February 1989.
Afterwards, he studied electrical engineering at theBeuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin from 1989 to 1993 and graduated as an engineer of communication and electronics.
He combined an internship with a stay abroad inOmaha, (USA).
After this, he worked in a telecommunication company as an engineer from 1993 to 1999.[2]
Mutlu joined the Green Party in 1990, and was elected into the district assembly of Kreuzberg. He entered the regional parliamentAbgeordnetenhaus of Berlin in 1999 representing the districtFriedrichshain-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 the2009 federal election; however, he missed the entry into theBundestag. Following the2013 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.[3] In parliament, he served on the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment. On the committee, he was his parliamentary group’srapporteur on citizen participation.[4]
When Mutlu voted in a favor of a symbolic resolution in 2016 that remembered and condemned the 1915Armenian genocide by Ottoman forces, which Turkey refuses to acknowledge, he became one of eleven MPs of Turkish origin who received increased police protection and further security measures for both their professional and private activities.[5] Also, Germany's foreign ministry warned him against travelling to Turkey because his safety could not be guaranteed after statements by Turkish PresidentTayyip Erdoğan suggesting that German lawmakers of Turkish origin had "tainted blood".[6]
Mutlu is married and has two children.
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