Fatma Koşer Kaya

Fatma Koşer Kaya (born in Çarşamba (Turkey) on February 20th, 1968) is a lawyer and a politicking Dutchwoman of Turkish origin. It sits since 2004 with the House of Commons for the party D66 (liberal centrists). In the legislative elections of November 2006, it was reproduced in sixth place on the list of D66, but it was re-elected thanks to its 34.564 votes preferably whereas the party passed from six to three seats.

She emigrated with the Netherlands, Bergen COp Zoom, the six years age with her mother, three brothers and two sisters. After studies of right to the Katholieke Universiteit the Brabant, she worked a certain time as greffière and lawyer. In 1998 it was committed as lawyer by the FNV (Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging), the Dutch main trade union.

Voice preferably

During the parliamentary electoral campaign of 2006 the lobby Turks Forum, based in $the Hague, carried out a national campaign and Community to make elect Koşer Kaya by the means of the voices preferably. D66, unlike the other parties in the list, had indeed not forced its candidate to discuss the Armenian genocide. With the PvdA (Labor) and with the HALF-VALUE LAYER (Christian-Democrats), candidates of Turkish origin who had refused to recognize the genocide were excluded from the list for the legislative ones, which pushed Turks Forum and other Turkish organizations with launching calls to the boycott against these parties.

Koşer Kaya declared itself neutral on this question since she does not live any more in Turkey.

December 7th, 2006, the television program NOVA diffused documentary in which it was revealed that a collaborator of the Turkish Ministry of the religious affairs would have sent by e-mail the election day before a call to vote in favor of Fatma Koşer Kaya to Turkish organizations of the Netherlands, which relayed it near a certain number of some 200.000 Dutch voters of Turkish origin. A spokesperson of the Turkish ministry blamed denied any implication, but Dutch deputies asked the Foreign Minister to convene the ambassador of Turkey in order to check these allegations of immixion.

Sources

the Turkish government would have invited to vote for a candidate of Turkish origin, Vote for all (list) 12/8/2006 (translation of a article published in the Dutch daily newspaper Trouw)

External bonds

site of the deputy Fatma Koşer Kaya (in Dutch)

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