Born in Brussels, she is Turkey’s new Minister of Family and Social Affairs.
Maïnur Özdemir, a former cdH (Humanist Democratic Center) councilor in Skarbeek and a member of parliament in Brussels for ten years, has been appointed Minister of Family and Social Affairs in the new Turkish government, reports the rtbf network.
Born in Brussels in 1982, Maynur Ozdemir, a graduate of ULB in political science, took part in the 2006 municipal elections. Elected with the cdH. In June 2009 he became a Member of Parliament for Brussels. She was re-elected in 2014. She was expelled from cdH after her statements about the Armenian genocide. In particular, as the Belgian media reported in 2015, he had refused to recognize the Armenian Genocide.
Mainur Ozdemir decided to leave the Brussels political scene in 2019, at the end of her second term. The following year, the Turkish president, with whom she was close, as rtbf points out, appointed her Ambassador to Algeria, a position she is leaving to take up a ministerial position.
Source: News Beast

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