Hakkı Keskin

Hakkı Keskin is a German Politician of Turkish origin and a professor of political science and policy of the migrations in higher education with Berlin.

Born in 1943 in Maçka (Hamisköy), in the province of Trabzon, in Turkey, it arrives to Germany in 1965 as student, and settles there. From 1967 to 1977 he studies political sciences and economic with the free Université of Berlin. He will briefly turn over to Turkey like advising in the Plan of Turkish the Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit in 1978 - 1980 and returns to Germany after the military coup d'etat of 1980.

He was parliamentary regional with Hamburg for SPD of 1993 with 1997, thus becoming at the time the first German member of Parliament of Turkish origin. He leaves then the active policy to devote himself to the setting-up of a powerful Turkish Community organization in Germany, the Türkische Gemeinde Deutschlands , of which he had become president in 1995.

With the elections of September 18th, 2005 it became appointed federal for the new party Die Linke, three months after having left the SPD due to dissension with the policy of the government Schröder.

Publication

Deutschland als neue Heimat. Eine Bilanz der Integrationspolitik , Verl. für Sozialwissenschaft, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3531146734

External bonds

individual record sheet on the site of the Bundestag
personal site
polemic on its candidature following remarks denying the Armenian genocide (it was born in an area where proceeded part of the genocide of the Armenians and Greeks Pontiques in 1915 - 1921)
'' Türkische Gemeinde Deutschlands ''

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