Özlem Demirel

Özlem Demirel (born 10 March 1984, Malatya, Turkey)[1] is a German politician who is currently a serving representative of the party The Left as a Member of the European Parliament.[2]

Özlem Demirel

MEP
Member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia
In office
June 2011 – March 2012
Member of the European Parliament for Germany
Assumed office
24 May 2019
Personal details
BornMalatya
NationalityGerman
Political partyThe Left
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Bonn
OccupationPolitician
Websitehttps://oezlem-alev-demirel.de

Education

She attended primary and secondary education in Bielefeld and Cologne,[3] and graduated from high school in 2004. she began to study political sciences and history at the University of Bonn.[1]

Political career

She has interested herself early on in politics and with 15 years she became involved in the youth section of the Democratic Workers Union (DIDF).[3] In 2012 she became the DIDF Chairwoman.[3] From 2005 to 2007 she was a member of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), and co-founded The Left party in 2007.[4] She led The Left in the campaign together with Christian Leye to the election to the State Parliament (Landtag) of Nord Rhine-Westphalia in 2017,[5] where The Left did not reach the affordable 5% to enter the Landtag.[6] She was again the leading candidate of The Lefts electoral campaign to the European Parliament 2019[7] to which she was elected on the 24 May 2019.[4] In the European Parliament she is both a vice chair of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence and the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee[8]

Personal life

Demirel was born in Malatya in 1984, and migrated to Germany together with her family as she was 5 years old.[3] She is married and mother of two children.[7]

References
  1. Nordrhein-Westfalen, Landtag. "Landtag NRW: Abgeordnete Özlem Alev Demirel". www.landtag.nrw.de (in German). Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  2. "Alle Gewählte in alphabetischer Reihenfolge". Der Bundeswahlleiter (in German). Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  3. "Interview mit der DIDF Vorsitzenden Özlem Alev Demirel". DIDF-Jugend (in German). 9 June 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  4. "Europaparlament". Die Linke. Nordrhein-Westfalen (in German). Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  5. "Linken-Spitzenkandidatin Demirel: "Frau Kraft will uns doch nur provozieren"". Kölnische Rundschau (in German). 24 March 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  6. "Entscheidung in NRW: Schwere Wahlpleite für Rot-Grün in NRW". www1.wdr.de (in German). 2 June 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  7. tagesschau.de. "Özlem Alev Demirel: Arbeiterkind mit Kämpferherz". tagesschau.de (in German). Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  8. "Home | Özlem Demirel | MEPs | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 10 April 2020.


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