Nezahat Baradari

Nezahat Baradari (born 15 August 1965) is a German physician and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2019.

Nezahat Baradari
Nezahat Baradari in 2017
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2019
Preceded byUlrich Kelber
ConstituencyBonn
Personal details
Born (1965-08-15) 15 August 1965
Ankara
NationalityGerman
Political partySPD
Alma materUniversity of Kiel
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Early life and career

Born in Ankara into a family of Turkish origin,[1][2] Baradari graduated from a German high school in 1987. From 1987 to 1994 she studied medicine at the University of Kiel. She completed her studies with the III. state examination. She received her license to practice medicine in October 1997. In October 2003, she received her specialist's licence to practise paediatrics and adolescent medicine.

Political career

Baradari has been a member of the Bundestag since 2019, when she succeeded Ulrich Kelber who had resigned.[3] In parliament, she is a member of the Committee on European Affairs (since 2019) and the Committee on Food and Agriculture (since 2020).[4] On the Committee on European Affairs, she has been her parliamentary group’s rapporteur on research and innovation.

In addition to her committee assignments, Baradari has been part of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean since 2020.

Controversy

Nezahat Baradari made critical comments on the German Bundestag's Armenian Genocide recognition in an SPD WhatsApp chat in 2016. This sparked controversy among SPD officials in Sauerland.[5]

Baradari believes that the Armenian Genocide consisted of "Armenian uprisings" as well as "mutual killings, massacres as well as deportations" that require "an in-depth scientific as well as independent investigation". In her critique, Baradari also referred to statements made by the federal chairman of the Turkish Community in Germany (TGD), Gökay Sofuoglu, who said that the decision to adopt the Armenian Genocide resolution disregards "the opinion of ethnic Turks in Germany," the majority of whom oppose the resolution."[6][7]

Other activities

References
  1. Plugge, Peter (2016), Nezahat Baradari als spd Bundestagskandidatin nominiert, Ilkz-Online, retrieved 1 April 2021
  2. Schmidt, Josef (2017), Interview: Es ist viel porzellan zerschlagen worden, Westfalenpost, retrieved 1 April 2021
  3. "Nezahat Baradari, MdB". SPD-Bundestagsfraktion (in German). 3 January 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  4. "German Bundestag - Committee on European Union Affairs". German Bundestag. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  5. "SPD in Aufruhr". Der Westen (in German). 6 October 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  6. "Deutschtürken fühlen sich übergangen". Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). 9 June 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  7. "Stellungnahme zur sogenannten "Armenien-Resolution" • Nezahat Baradari". Nezahat Baradari (in German). 1 August 2017. Archived from the original on 11 November 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  8. Political Advisory Board Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
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