Background
She was born on May 5, 1978 in Leverkusen to Gastarbeiter parents, who immigrated in the 1970s from Greece, where they lived as Turkish minority in Western Thrace.
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Cemile Giousouf
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Education
University of Bonn.
Career
At the age of two, Giousouf returned to her family in Germany. She has a brother. In addition to her German citizenship, she holds also the Greek one. Following the completion of her high school education in Leverkusen with Abitur, she studied Political science, Social science and Islamic science at the University of Bonn.
In 2008, Giousouf was employed as consultant in the State Ministry of Generations, Family, Women and Integration of North Rhine-Westphalia.
There, she was responsible for the scope "Women with Immigration History". From 2009 on, she served as consultant in the Department of Integration at the Ministry of Integration and Social Welfare of the same state.
During her university years, she was engaged in the German-Turkish Forum, a subordinate organization of the Christian Democratic Union (Christian Democratic Union). In 2008, she was elected vice chairperson of the organization"s North Rhine-Westphalia branch, to which she belonged since 2004.
She was also active in the Christian Democratic Union"s several other local organizations as well as in the city administration of Aachen.
Giousouf entered Christian Democratic Union"s federal-level organization in 2011, where she served for "İntegration" matters. On June 30, 2012, she was elected to the executive board of Christian Democratic Union state organization in North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2013, the local organization of Christian Democratic Union in Hagen nominated her for the Bundestagswahl.
In the next two preliminary inner-party elections, she was able to make her way for the federal election as direct candidate in the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis District in September 2013.
Membership
Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment.
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Political Party
Christian Democratic Union