Sevim Çelebi-Gottschlich

Sevim Çelebi-Gottschlich
Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin
In office
1987–1989
Personal details
Born1953 (age 71–72)
Political partyAlternative Liste

Sevim Çelebi-Gottschlich (born in 1953 in Turkey) is a former German Politician (Alliance '90/The Greens when it was still the Alternative Liste). She served from 1987 to 1989 in the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin, the state parliament of Berlin.[1]

Life and work

Çelebi-Gottschlich migrated to Berlin from Turkey in 1970 at the age of 17. In 1987 she would cause a minor sensation when she became the first individual of Turkish origin to enter any West German Parliament when she joined the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin on the ticket of the Alternative Liste (AL).[1][2][3] When she began a parliamentary speech in Turkish in April 1987, members of the Christian Democratic Union drowned her out by pounding their fists on the table and she was forced to stop speaking.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Sevim Celebi-Gottschlich". bpb. 25 October 2011.
  2. ^ Mayer, Susan (3 February 1989). "Mein schönes Kreuzberg: Sevim Çelebi – erste Ausländerin in einem deutschen Parlament". Die Zeit.
  3. ^ Aktürk, Şener (2012). Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 87. ISBN 9781107021433.
  4. ^ Pütz, Martin (1997). Language Choices: Conditions, Constraints, and Consequences. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 39. ISBN 9027218315.

Bibliography

  • Jeannette Goddar/Dorte Huneke (Hrsg.): "Auf Zeit. Für immer. Zuwanderer aus der Türkei erinnern sich," Ein Projekt der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung und des KulturForums TürkeiDeutschland e. V. Schriftenreihe Band 1183, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Bonn 2011. Link to BPB shop.


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