Cansu Özdemir
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Cansu Özdemir | |
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 Özdemir in 2025 | |
| Member of the Bundestag for Hamburg | |
| Assumed office 23 February 2025 | |
| Constituency | The Left Party List |
| Member of the Hamburg Parliament | |
| In office 20 February 2011 – 23 February 2025 | |
| Constituency | Hamburg-Altona |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1988-09-08) 8 September 1988 (age 37) |
| Party | The Left (since 2009) |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | University of Hamburg |
Cansu Özdemir (born 8 September 1988) is a German politician of The Left from Hamburg. She is a member of the Bundestag. [1]
Özdemir was born in Hamburg to Kurdish parents in 1988.[2] After she received her Abitur from Kieler Straße Business School[3] in 2009, she studied cultural anthropology[3] and politics at the University of Hamburg.[4]
Political career
In 2009, Özdemir also became a member of The Left and in 2011 she entered the Hamburg Parliament[5] of which she has been a member ever since.[4] Özdemir led The Left in the 2020 Hamburg state election.[6]
She is known for her support for the legalization of the Kurdistan Workers' Party,[7] 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.[6] She called Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a "dictator" in an interview,[8] and is also critical of the Syrian civil war.
In the 2021 German federal election, she unsuccessfully contested the constituency of Hamburg-Altona. In the 2025 German federal election, she was placed second on her party's state list for Hamburg and was elected to the Bundestag.
References
- ↑ "Entscheidung gefallen: Hamburger Linken-Politikerin Cansu Özdemir nimmt Bundestagsmandat an". Norddeutscher Rundfunk (in German). 6 March 2025. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
- ↑ "Election campaign support for left-wing top candidate Özdemir". ANF News. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
- 1 2 WELT (31 July 2016). "Cansu Özdemir, Linken-Fraktionschefin & Mustafa Yoldas, Schura-Vorsitzender". DIE WELT. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
- 1 2 "CANSU ÖZDEMIR | Die Linke. Fraktion in der Hamburgischen Bürgerschaft" (in German). Retrieved 1 March 2020.
- ↑ "'Cansu Özdemir is our candidate'". ANF News. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
- 1 2 "Porträt: Die Linke Cansu Özdemir". ndr.de (in German). Retrieved 1 March 2020.
- ↑ "Case against Cansu Özdemir over PKK flag closed". ANF News. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ↑ "Interview mit Cansu Özdemir – LandesPressePortal – Aktuelle Politik Nachrichten". landespresseportal.de. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
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