by Güven Özalp - Milliyet
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Haziran 03, 2009 00:00
BRUSSELS - Ahead of the European Parliament elections to be held between June 4 and 7, the number of candidates of Turkish origin has soared.
Germany has the highest number of Turkish candidates. İsmail Ertuğ, Hıdır Karademir and Macit Karaahmetoğlu are candidates from the Social Democratic Party, or SPD, while Sidar Aydınlık, Kadriye Karcı and Songül Karabulut are the Left Party’s candidates. Christian Democratic Union’s candidate is Dr. Yaşar Bilgin.
Belgium came second in number of Turkish candidates. Meryem Almacı and İnan Aslıyüce Flaman are Green Party candidates while Nermin Kumanova is a candidate for ECOLO, a green party from French-speaking Belgium. Mustafa Uzun is a candidate from the Christian People’s Party. SPA-Spirit’s (Flemish socialist) candidates with Turkish descent are Selahattin Koçak and Şener Uğurlu. In the Netherlands, Emine Bozkurt and Erdoğan Kaya are candidates from leftist Party of Labor. Another Turkish candidate is Osman Biçen from D66. The French Socialist Party’s Turkish candidate is Emrullah Deniz while the Danish Social Democrat Party’s is Hüseyin Araç. The Turkish-origin candidate of the British Labour Party is Nilgün Canver.