Lale Akgün
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Dr. Lale Akgün (born 17 September 1953 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a German politician and member of the SPD. She served as an MP for Cologne II electoral district in the German Bundestag from 2002 to 2009.
Life
[edit]Lale Akgün's Turkish family moved to Germany when she was 9. She studied psychology and medicine at Marburg, where she attained a doctorate in the former. Akgün then served in the Cologne city administration in juvenile welfare services/family consultation as the deputy agency chief. Since 1997, she has headed the LzA in North Rhine-Westphalia based in Solingen. Akgün is married with one daughter.
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- 1953 births
- Living people
- Turkish emigrants to Germany
- Members of the Bundestag for North Rhine-Westphalia
- Politicians from Istanbul
- Female members of the Bundestag
- German politicians of Turkish descent
- 21st-century German women politicians
- Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Members of the Bundestag 2005–2009
- Members of the Bundestag 2002–2005
- Members of the Bundestag for the Social Democratic Party of Germany
- Social Democratic Party of Germany politician stubs