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Cem ÖzdemirCem Özdemir is a member of the European parliament (MEP) and spokesperson for foreign affairs of the Greens/EFA parliamentary group. He was a member of Germany's Bundestag from 1994-2002. His website is here Recent articlesTurkey’s clash of values: memo to Europe The political and legal crisis in Turkey makes a clear understanding of the European Union's vital interest in the country essential, says the Green MEP Cem Özdemir. Istanbul: my mother's cityCem Özdemir is a child of Istanbul who became Germany’s first member of parliament of Turkish origin. The terrorist bombs of November 2003, he writes, attack the city’s most precious inheritance: its multicultural, tolerant heart. Mehmet and Edeltraud too: prospects for a multicultural GermanyThe German Bundestag’s first parliamentary representative of Turkish descent is currently in Washington, comparing how minority groups organise themselves politically in the United States and Germany. Recently named ‘Multicultural Man of the Year’ by a German radio station, he turns a sometimes appalled gaze on his homeland, and asks how far Germany has to go to fulfil a truly multicultural vision. |
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