He finished his training as an information electrician at the Berlin Institute of Technology from September 1985 to February 1989. Afterwards, he studied electrical engineering at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin from 1989 to 1993 and graduated as engineer of communication and electronics.
Mutlu has lived in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg since 1973 and received his naturalization in 1990. He combined an internship with a stay abroad in Omaha, (United States of America). After this, he worked in a telecommunication company as engineer from 1993 to 1999.
He joined the Green Party in 1990, and was elected into the district assembly of Kreuzberg.
He entered the regional parliament Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin in 1999 representing the district Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. He was re-elected in 2006 and 2011.
During this period, he served in a number of parliamentary commissions, responsible particularly for policies of education, integration and migration as well as policies for Europe and Turkey. He is one of the eleven politicians of Turkish descent, who entered the federal parliament including seven women.
Marshall-Memorial Fellow of the German Marshall Fund
Young leader of the Atlantik Brücke e.V. (2000)
Personal life
Özcan Mutlu is married and has two children.
He was nominated from his party for the 2009 federal election, missed however the entry into the Bundestag.
Founding member of the bilingual German-Turkish Europe-School
founding member of the sister city agreement between Kreuzberg and Kadıköy, Istanbul.
