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Feleknas Uca

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Feleknas Uca was born on 17 September 1976, in Celle, Lower Saxony, West Germany.

She is a Yazidi politician active in Germany and Turkey. From 1999 to 2009, she was member of the European Parliament from Germany, serving with Die Linke. (German: Die Linke), also commonly referred to as the Left Party.

Feleknas Uca was at one time the world’s only Yazidi parliamentarian until the Iraqi legislature was elected in 2005. In June 2015, she was elected as a Member of Parliament in Turkey representing Diyarbakır.



An immigrant Yazidi family originally from Turkey. She graduated from Comprehensive School in Celle before taking an apprenticeship as a doctor’s assistant, and completed her Abitur by distance learning. Until July 2014, Feleknas Uca lived in Celle until she moved to Diyarbakir east of  Turkey.

Career

In 1999, aged 22, she was elected to the European Parliament fifth of six places on the Party of Democratic Socialism national list.

In 2009, Uca left the European Parliament. In 2012, she was detained in Turkey’s Istanbul Airport for attempting to take a large number of B-1 vitamins to Kurdish prisoners in Turkish prisons and was deported to Germany.

In July 2014, Feleknas Uca resettled in Diyarbakır, the largest Kurdish populated city in Turkey. On 7 April 2015, She was nominated by the HDP (democratic party of peoples) to their electoral list for the upcoming parliamentary election as one of a number of  Yazidis running for office.

Occupation: Politician, Activist.

Years active: 1987, present

Party: Left Party

Ethnicity: White / Kurdish

Nationality: German-Turkish

Residence: Turkey

Religion: Muslim

Ethnicity: White

Eye color: Black

Hair color: Black

Sexual orientation: Stright

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