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Hakkı Keskin (born 12 February 1943 inMaçka,Trabzon,Turkey) is aTurkish-German politician with theLeft Party (die Linkspartei), formerly of theSocial Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and a professor of political science. He was the first person of Turkish descent to become a member of a German parliament (the Bürgerschaft in Hamburg) and is seen as one of the prominent leaders of the country's Turkish community.
Born in Turkey, Keskin went to High school inErzincan and moved to Germany to pursue his tertiary education at theFree University of Berlin where he obtained a PhD inPolitical Science. Returning to Turkey, he served as a planning advisor to Turkish prime ministerBülent Ecevit. In 1980, he joined academia of the Professional School for Administration and Justice in Berlin. In 1982, he became a professor for politics and migration policy at theHamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW) . Keskin became the first person of Turkish descent to become a member of a German parliament in 1993, as representative in the Bürgerschaft of theFree and Hanseatic city of Hamburg for the SPD. In 1995, he formed theTürkische Gemeinde Deutschlands, a Turkish community organization, to which he became president.
In June 2005, he withdrew from the Social Democratic Party in protest of its policies and joined the Left Party for whom he subsequently became an opposition MDB in the September 2005 elections. His move prompted the defection of GermanFederal Constitutional Court justice Wolfgang Neskovic, and the former SPD leader inBaden-Württemberg, Ulrich Maurer from the Social Democrats to the Left Party. Hakkı Keskin is married with two children.
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