Elvan Korkmaz
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{{short description|German politician}}
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| name = Elvan Korkmaz
| office = Member of the Bundestag
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| term_start = 2017
| term_end = 2021
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1985|7|27}}
| birth_place = Gütersloh, West Germany
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| party = SPD
| nationality = German
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Elvan Korkmaz (born 27 July 1985 in Gütersloh) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who was a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2017 to 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/profile/elvan-korkmaz-emre|title=Elvan Korkmaz-Emre {{!}} Abgeordnetenwatch|website=www.abgeordnetenwatch.de|language=de|access-date=2020-03-20}}
Political career
Korkmaz became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election.{{Cite web|url=https://www.spdfraktion.de/abgeordnete/korkmaz-emre|title=Elvan Korkmaz-Emre, MdB|date=2017-09-25|website=SPD-Bundestagsfraktion|language=de|access-date=2020-03-20}} In parliament, she was a member of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure and the Digital Agenda Committee.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundestag.de/en/committees/a15|title=German Bundestag – Transport and Digital Infrastructure|website=German Bundestag|language=en|access-date=2020-03-20}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundestag.de/en/committees/a23|title=German Bundestag – Digital Agenda|website=German Bundestag|language=en|access-date=2020-03-20}}
Korkmaz lost her seat in the 2021 German federal election.{{Cite web|last=Holzkamp|first=Rainer|title=Elvan Korkmaz-Emre soll neue Vorsitzende des SPD-Stadtverbands werden|url=https://www.nw.de/lokal/kreis_guetersloh/guetersloh/23109743_Elvan-Korkmaz-Emre-soll-neue-Vorsitzende-des-SPD-Stadtverbands-werden.html|access-date=2021-10-17|website=Gütersloh: Aktuelle News & Nachrichten|language=de}} In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD, the Green Party and the Free Democrats (FDP) following the 2021 German elections, she was nonetheless part of her party's delegation in the working group on digital innovation and infrastructure, co-chaired by Jens Zimmermann, Malte Spitz and Andreas Pinkwart.Britt-Marie Lakämper (October 21, 2021), [https://www.waz.de/politik/koaltionsverhandlungen-spd-gruene-fdp-ampel-arbeitsgruppen-id233641303.html SPD, Grüne, FDP: Diese Politiker verhandeln die Ampel-Koalition] Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
Life after politics
Since 2022, Korkmaz has been working at public affairs agency Gauly in Berlin.[https://www.nw.de/lokal/kreis_guetersloh/guetersloh/23276109_Lasst-es-uns-rocken-Ehemalige-Bundestagsabgeordnete-hat-neuen-Job.html "Lasst es uns rocken" - Ehemalige Bundestagsabgeordnete hat neuen Job] Neue Westfälische, 31 May 2022.
Other activities
- Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Member of the Political Advisory Board (since 2020)[https://www.spd-wirtschaftsforum.de/news/neukonstituierung_politischer_beirat-20200701/ Bernd Westphal und Anke Rehlinger koordinieren neu konstituierten Politischen Beirat des SPD-Wirtschaftsforums] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220420002356/https://www.spd-wirtschaftsforum.de/news/neukonstituierung_politischer_beirat-20200701/ |date=20 April 2022 }} Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, press release of July 1, 2020.
- Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Posts and Railway (BNetzA), Alternate Member of the Rail Infrastructure Advisory Council[https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Allgemeines/Bundesnetzagentur/BeiraeteundAusschuesse/EisenbahnInfrastrukturBeirat/Mitglieder/MitgliederEisenbahninfrastrukturbeirat.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=83 Members of the Rail Infrastructure Advisory Council] Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Posts and Railway (BNetzA).
Personal life
Korkmaz is of ethnic Turkish origin.{{citation|date=2014|title=Die Vizechefin: Elvan Korkmaz|url=https://www.wz.de/panorama/die-vizechefin-elvan-korkmaz_aid-29416711|publisher=Westdeutsche Zeitung|access-date=3 April 2021}}{{citation|last=Holzkamp|first=Rainer|date=2019|title=Kommentar zu Elvan Korkmaz: "Gutes Krisenmanagement sieht anders aus"|url=https://www.nw.de/lokal/kreis_guetersloh/guetersloh/22360036_Kommentar-zu-Elvan-Korkmaz-Gutes-Krisenmanagement-sieht-anders-aus.html|access-date=3 April 2021}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://elvan-korkmaz.de/}} {{in lang|de}}
- [https://www.bundestag.de/en/members/521238-521238 Bundestag biography] {{in lang|en}}
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