Background
Özdemir was born on June 23, 1987 in Duisburg"s quarter of Homberg, Germany to Gastarbeiter parents Zeki and Aynur, who had moved there from Turkey.
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Education
After finishing high school with Abitur, he studied law at the University of Düsseldorf, graduating in 2011.
Career
He was then employed at the district court in Düsseldorf as a jurist trainee. He spent his whole life in his hometown even during his university years. He joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 2001 at the age of fourteen, and was active in the Young Socialists in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (JUSO) organization.
Achievements
Politics
Özdemir climbed up to the top position in the regional organization of the party in Homberg. With the declaration of Johannes Pflug, the foreign-policy expert of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in the Bundestag, to resign from active politics and not to run again for the 2013 federal election, the party nominated Mahmut Özdemir as the direct candidate for Duisburg World War II
Membership
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He has been a member of the Bundestag since being elected in September 2013. In the regional elections of 2009, he became a member of the city council in his hometown Duisburg.
