Tuba Bozkurt

Tuba Bozkurt (born 1983) is a German politician from the Alliance 90/The Greens. She has been a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin since 2021.

Biography

Bozkurt's grandparents came to Germany from Turkey as guest workers. Tuba Bozkurt was born in Lübeck and grew up in the Southern Palatinate. After finishing school, she first completed an apprenticeship as a foreign language assistant in Mannheim, then graduated from high school in Bruchsal. From at least 2007 to 2009, she studied political science at the Technical University of Darmstadt and at the Autonomous University of Barcelona; it is not known whether she graduated. In 2011, she completed an internship at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Tel Aviv.

In her application for the state list for the 2021 Berlin state election, she stated that she was a consultant for digital transformation and had worked in the digital economy since 2014.

She lives in Berlin-Wedding.

Political career

Bozkurt joined the Green Party (Alliance 90/The Greens) in 2009 while studying . In the Berlin state association, she is one of two volunteer anti-discrimination officers, and in the Berlin district of Mitte, she is the spokesperson for the working group on anti-racism and diversity.