2023-06-03 19:59:31
Mahinur Ozdemir, former cdH municipal councilor in Schaerbeek and Brussels MP for ten years, has been appointed Minister of Family and Social Affairs in the new Turkish government. Its composition was announced this Saturday evening by the re-elected president and strongman of the AKP party, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He won the recent presidential election by 52.18% against 47.82% for his Democratic opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu. A victory that was decided in the second round, a first for Erdogan in three terms.
In his government, made up of 17 members, Mahinur Ozdemir therefore takes the portfolio of Family and Social Affairs. Born in Brussels in 1982, Mahinur Ozdemir, a graduate of the ULB in political science, took part in her first elections, in 2006, during the municipal elections. She was elected on the cdH list. In June 2009, she became a Brussels regional deputy and the first Belgian representative to wear an Islamic veil in a parliamentary assembly, arousing the curiosity of the international media, event recalled today by the Turkish press.
She left Belgian political life in 2019
Mahinur Ozdemir was reelected in 2014. But the following year, she was expelled from the cdH following a controversy over the Armenian genocide.
She decides to leave the Brussels political scene in 2019, at the end of his second term. The following year, the Turkish President appointed her Ambassador to Algeria. A position that she will therefore leave this time to become a minister and the only woman in the new Turkish government.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his AKP party had supported Mahinur Ozdemir at the time of his conflict with the cdH authorities.
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