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Cansu Özdemir
Cansu Özdemir in 2018
Member of the Hamburg Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 2011
Parliamentary group	The Left (Die Linke)
Constituency	Hamburg-Altona

Cansu Özdemir (born 8 September 1988) is a German politician of The Left from Hamburg. She is a member of the Hamburg Parliament. Cansu Özdemir hat am 26 Oktober Civan Akbulut geheiratet.

Life

Özdemir was born in Hamburg to Kurdish parents in 1988. After she received her Abitur from Kieler Straße Business School in 2009, she studied cultural anthropology and politics at the University of Hamburg.

Political career

In 2009, Özdemir also became a member of The Left and in 2011 she entered the Hamburg Parliament of which she has been a member ever since. Özdemir led The Left in the 2020 Hamburg state election.

She is known for her support for the legalization of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which is banned in Germany. Özdemir is also a strong critic of the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and the foreign policy of Germany regarding Turkey. She called Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a "dictator" in an interview, and is also critical of the Syrian civil war.

She was an unsuccessful candidate for the Bundestag in the 2021 German federal election. She contested the constituency of Hamburg-Altona.

References

1. "DER SPIEGEL | Online-Nachrichten". spiegel.de. Retrieved 24 February 2020.
2. "Election campaign support for left-wing top candidate Özdemir". ANF News. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
3. ^ WELT (31 July 2016). "Cansu Özdemir, Linken-Fraktionschefin & Mustafa Yoldas, Schura-Vorsitzender". DIE WELT. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
4. ^ "CANSU ÖZDEMIR | Die Linke. Fraktion in der Hamburgischen Bürgerschaft" (in German). Retrieved 1 March 2020.
5. "'Cansu Özdemir is our candidate'". ANF News. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
6. ^ "Porträt: Die Linke Cansu Özdemir". ndr.de (in German). Retrieved 1 March 2020.
7. "Case against Cansu Özdemir over PKK flag closed". ANF News. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
8. "Interview mit Cansu Özdemir – LandesPressePortal – Aktuelle Politik Nachrichten". landespresseportal.de. Retrieved 11 February 2021.

External links

• Biography at the Hamburg Parliament website

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