Ekin Deligöz | |
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 Deligöz in 2014 | |
| Member of theBundestag forBavaria | |
| In office 26 October 1998 – 25 March 2025 | |
| Constituency | Alliance 90/The Greens List |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1971-04-21)21 April 1971 (age 54) Tokat, Turkey |
| Citizenship | German |
| Political party | Alliance '90/The Greens |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Website | ekin-deligoez |
Ekin Deligöz (born 21 April 1971) is aTurkish-German politician ofAlliance '90/The Greens who served as a member of theBundestag forBavaria from 1998 until her retirement in 2025. In addition, she was aParliamentary State Secretary in theFederal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in thecoalition government ofChancellorOlaf Scholz from 2021 to 2025.[1]
Of ethnicTurkish origin,[2][3][4] Deligöz was born inTokat,Turkey; her family moved to West Germany in 1979. She attended school inWeißenhorn and afterwards partook in Administrative Studies inKonstanz andVienna earning a degree in 1998. In February 1997, she acquired German citizenship.[5]
Deligöz joined the Greens as a student member and belonged to the Bavaria chapter of the Greens'youth organization. She entered theBundestag in 1998, and was re-elected in2002,2005 and2009. Deligöz was re-elected for the fourth time into the federal parliament following the2013 election. She is one of the eleven politicians of Turkish descent who won a seat in the federal parliament, including seven women.[6]
Between 2002 and 2005, Deligöz served asChief Whip of the Green Party'sparliamentary group. From 2009 until 2013, she was part of the group's leadership around co-chairsRenate Künast andJürgen Trittin.[6] In this capacity, she was part of a series of round table talks in 2010 and 2011 to tackle a wave ofchild sexual abuse cases, including numerous allegations of abuse in the Roman Catholic Church; the talks were jointly chaired by ministersSabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger,Annette Schavan, andKristina Schröder.[7]
A member of the Budget Committee and as deputy chairwoman of the Audit Committee from 2013 until 2021, Deligöz served as her parliamentary group'srapporteur on the annual budgets of theFederal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS); theFederal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF); theFederal Ministry of Health (2013-2017); theFederal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ); theOffice of the Federal President (2013–2021); theFederal Foreign Office (2018–2021); and theFederal Court of Auditors (2018–2021).
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and theFree Democratic Party (FDP) following the2021 German elections, Deligöz was part of her party's delegation in the working group on children, youth and families, co-chaired bySerpil Midyatli,Katrin Göring-Eckardt andStephan Thomae.[8]In September 2024, she announced not seeking re-election for Bundestag in February 2025.[9]
When Deligöz voted in a favor of a symbolic resolution in 2016 that labels the1915 killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman forces "genocide", a description that Turkey strongly rejects, she became one of eleven MPs of Turkish origin who received increased police protection and further security measures for both their professional and private activities.[10] Also, Germany'sFederal Foreign Office warned her against travelling to Turkey because her safety could not be guaranteed after statements by Turkish PresidentTayyip Erdogan were suggestive of German lawmakers of Turkish origin having "tainted blood".[11]
Sie engagieren sich für mehr als Integrationsthemen: Ekin Deligöz, Aygül Özkan und Aydan Özoğuz machen Politik in Deutschland.
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