Özlem Demirel

show This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (December 2019) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated page}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Özlem Demirel MEP
Member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia
In office June 2011 – March 2012
Member of the European Parliament for Germany
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 May 2019
Personal details
Born	Malatya
Nationality	German
Political party	The Left
Children	2
Alma mater	University of Bonn
Occupation	Politician
Website	https://oezlem-alev-demirel.de

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]

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 (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 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[]

External links[]

This article about a Member of the European Parliament from Germany is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t