Hülya Kat
Hülya Kat | |
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Member of the House of Representatives | |
Assumed office 31 March 2021 | |
Member of the Amsterdam municipal council | |
In office 30 May 2018[1] – 31 March 2021[2] | |
Preceded by | Mascha ten Bruggencate |
Member of the Velsen municipal council | |
In office 11 March 2010[3] – 22 February 2018[4] | |
Succeeded by | Bas de Ruig |
Personal details | |
Born | IJmuiden, Netherlands | 1 August 1983
Political party | Democrats 66 |
Alma mater | University of Groningen |
Website | hulyakat |
Hülya Kat (born 1 August 1983) is a Dutch politician, serving as a member of the House of Representatives on behalf of the social liberal party Democrats 66 (D66). She was a member of the Velsen municipal council between 2010 and 2018, when she was elected to the Amsterdam council. Kat won a seat in the House in the 2021 general election.
Early life and education[]
Kat was born in 1983 in the North Holland port town of IJmuiden to Turkish-born parents, who had come to the Netherlands in 1970. She grew up in that town and in Santpoort-Noord with her two younger brothers, and she attended the Haarlem secondary school Erasmus College.[5][6] Kat studied law at the University of Groningen between 2002 and 2009 with intellectual property law as specialization and returned to her parents in IJmuiden afterwards.[5][7]
Career[]
She joined Democrats 66 in 2009 and first appeared on the ballot in the 2010 municipal election in Velsen as the party's fifth candidate.[5][8] D66 won four municipal council seats, but Kat was elected despite this result because of her preference votes.[5] At the time, Kat also volunteered at the Velsen animal ambulance. She became chair of the municipality's John van Dijk Fund, which aims to engage young people in politics, shortly after her election.[5][9] Kat's focus in the council was on safety and public order, and she was re-elected in 2014 as D66's third candidate.[10][11] She was also placed 38th on the party list in the 2017 general election. Kat received 2,685 preference votes, but she was not elected due to D66 winning nineteen seats.[12]
She moved to the Dutch capital of Amsterdam in 2018, while she was working as an HR officer at a cleaning company.[10] Kat was D66's ninth candidate in Amsterdam in the 2018 municipal election, which was held a month after she had left the Velsen municipal council.[4] Her party won eight seats in Amsterdam, but Kat did end up in the municipal council in May 2018, when another D66 member left the council.[10][1] She became her party's spokesperson for economic affairs, port, airport, and spatial planning and the chair of the mobility, air quality, and water committee.[13][14] She also started working as a senior staff and organizational advisor at the Amsterdam district court in June 2018.[15][16]
Kat ran again for member of parliament in the 2021 general election, being placed seventeenth on the party list.[15] She received 15,620 preference votes and was sworn into the House of Representatives on 31 March.[17] She was replaced in the Amsterdam municipal council that same day, and she left her job at the district court.[2][18] In the House, Kat's specializations are the Participation Act, poverty, debts, and the childcare benefits scandal, and she is on the Committees for Credentials, Defence, Finance, Public Expenditure, and Social Affairs and Employment.[19][20] In October 2021, she also took over 's position on the committee of the parliamentary enquiry into induced earthquakes due to gas extraction in the province of Groningen.[21]
Kat has been part of the board of directors of UNESCO Centrum Nederland, which provides development aid, since 2012.[18]
Personal life[]
She is a resident of Amsterdam and a supporter of the football club AZ Alkmaar.[20][22]
References[]
- ^ a b "Openbare vergadering op woensdag 30 mei 2018" [Public meeting on Wednesday 30 May 2018]. Gemeente Amsterdam (in Dutch). 20 June 2018. pp. 3 and 85–86. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ a b "Openbare vergadering op woensdag 31 maart 2021" [Public meeting on Wednesday 31 March 2021]. Gemeente Amsterdam (in Dutch). 19 April 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ "Gemeenteraad: 'Een prachtig moment voor lokale democratie'" [Municipal council: 'A beautiful moment for local democracy']. IJmuider Courant (in Dutch). 12 March 2010.
- ^ a b "Verslag van de raadsvergadering van de gemeente Velsen op 22 februari 2018" [Report of the council meeting of the municipality of Velsen on 22 February 2018] (PDF). Gemeente Velsen (in Dutch). p. 9. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
- ^ a b c d e "'Ik kan ook een viswijf zijn'" ['I can also be a fishwife']. IJmuider Courant (in Dutch). 3 April 2010.
- ^ "Hülya Kat: "Ik wil gewoon méédoen!"" [Hülya Kat: "I just want to participate"] (PDF). Jutter/Hofgeest (in Dutch). 24 June 2021. p. 8. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
- ^ "Persoonlijk" [Personal]. Hülya Kat (in Dutch). Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ "Vijf raadsleden met voorkeursstemmen" [Five council members with preference votes]. IJmuider Courant (in Dutch). 5 March 2010.
- ^ "Hülya Kat voorzitter John van Dijk-fonds" [Hülya Kat chair John van Dijk Fund]. IJmuider Courant (in Dutch). 1 June 2010.
- ^ a b c Nijveen, Carlo (29 December 2017). "Bevlogen politica Hülya Kat wil in 2018 Mokummer worden" [Enthusiastic politician Hülya Kat wants to become an Amsterdam resident in 2018]. IJmuider Courant (in Dutch). p. 9.
- ^ "Voorkeurstemmen in Velsen" [Preference votes in Velsen]. Noordhollands Dagblad (in Dutch). 21 March 2014.
- ^ "Uitslag Tweede Kamerverkiezing 2017 (getekend exemplaar)" [Results House of Representatives election 2017 (signed copy)] (PDF). Kiesraad (in Dutch). 21 March 2017. pp. 114 and 115. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
- ^ "Gemeenteraadslid Hülya Kat op plek 16 van D66, ook advocaat Sidney Smeets op de kieslijst" [Municipal councilor Hülya Kat on spot 16 for D66, also lawyer Sidney Smeets on party list]. AT5 (in Dutch). 11 November 2020. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ "Kandidatenboek Tweede Kamerverkiezing 2021" [Candidate book House of Representatives 2021] (PDF). D66 (in Dutch). November 2020. p. 144. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ a b Nijveen, Carlo (5 March 2021). "Hülya Kat klaar voor sprong naar Binnenhof: ex-IJmuidense wil vanuit Den Haag óók meebeslissen over toekomst van Tata Steel [video]" [Hülya Kat ready for Binnenhof: former IJmuiden resident wants to be involved in decisions about Tata Steel [video]] (in Dutch). Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ "Mr. H. (Hülya) Kat". Parlement.com (in Dutch). Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ "Uitslag Tweede Kamerverkiezing 17 maart 2021 Proces-verbaal" [Results general election 17 March 2021 Report] (PDF). Kiesraad (in Dutch). 29 March 2021. p. 188. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ a b "Nevenactiviteiten van Hülya Kat" [Secondary activities Hülya Kat]. Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal (in Dutch). Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ "Hülya Kat". D66 (in Dutch). Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ a b "Hülya Kat". Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ Miskovic, Mario (16 October 2021). "Ziek D66-Kamerlid permanent vervangen in enquêtecommissie gaswinning" [Ill D66 member of parliament permanently replaced in committee of the parliamentary enquiry into gas extraction]. RTV Noord. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
- ^ "Biografie, onderwijs en loopbaan van Hülya Kat" [Biography, education, and career of Hülya Kat]. Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal (in Dutch). Retrieved 11 June 2021.
External links[]
- Personal website (in Dutch)
- 1983 births
- 21st-century Dutch politicians
- 21st-century Dutch women politicians
- Democrats 66 politicians
- Dutch people of Turkish descent
- Living people
- Members of the House of Representatives (Netherlands)
- Municipal councillors of Amsterdam
- People from Velsen
- University of Groningen alumni