First Kurdish politician of Denmark

The first time in history a Kurdish woman has been elected

into Denmark`s parliament.

First Kurdish politician of Denmark: Ozlem Sara Cekic

Özlem Cekic is now a politician of

Denmark`s Social Populist Party.

“I was born in 1976 in Ankara. When I was 4 my family emigrated to Finland (…) but at the age of 10 we moved to Denmark where I still live. I finished Ryensteen Gymnasium in 1996 and began an apprenticeship as a nurse that I finished in 2000.
From 2000 to 2006 I worked (…) as nurse and was for 4 years the proxy of nearly 70 nurses. Later I worked in a hospital where I attended to clients who were sick of drugs.”

Ozlem was also politically active. In 2003 she was voted for first emigrant leader of Nurses` Union. Later she formed different associations in which she tought nursery to immigrants, aided children who have difficulties in their families or collected things for homeless persons. Today she is the actual leader of some associations that help immigrants who have difficulties.

Immigrant family in Copenhagen

“I worked a lot for better integration and less discrimination between the Danish people” Ozlem says. She was guest of different TV programsand was the moderator on channel TV2 where she made a talkshow in which seven Muslim women could regularly talk about social problems


"Since 2007 I am the moderator of a programme called “Mission Integration” in which 6 young emigrants can do projects against joblessness”
Since 2001 Ozlem is a member of the Danish SF party: from then on she intensified her political works by visiting different seminars. She even opened an internet portal called http://www.24timer.dk/ where she publishes her new projects as columns.


Today Ozlem Cekic is mother of an 8 years old child - and the first Kurdish woman in Denmark`s parliament.

Source: http://www.ozlem.dk/kurdisk.sf