Nalin Pekgul
Nalin Pekgul | |
|---|---|
 Nalin Pekgul in 2007 | |
| Born | 1967 (age 57–58) |
| Nationality | Kurdish, Swedish |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Years active | 1994 - present |
| Known for | Former member of the Swedish parliament |
Nalin Pekgul (née Baksi) (born 30 April, 1967) is a Kurdish-Swedish Social Democratic politician, nurse and former parliamentarian.
Life
Pekgul was born in Batman, Turkey, but immigrated to Sweden from Turkey with her family in 1980 when she was 13. She is the sister of the Kurdish nationalist and anti-racist activist Kurdo Baksi and neice of the author Mahmut Baksi. Pekgul trained as a nurse, a profession in which she worked both before and after her election as a politician.
Political activities
In 1982, Pekgul joined the Swedish Social Democratic Youth Association (SSU) in Tensta, North-West Stockholm.
Between 1994–2002, Pekgül was a member of the Swedish parliament. She was chairwoman of Social Democratic Women in Sweden (Template:Lang-sv) 2003-2011.[1]
Pekgul has supported a progressive form of Islam and ideas of Islamic Feminism.[1] She supports the Swedish monarchy and has argued that the Social Democrats should remove calls for a republic from their party programme.[2]
After an absence from Swedish politics of seven years, Pekgul announced in 2018 that she would make a political comeback to campaign against religious extremism and honour culture.[3]
References
- ^ a b ""Jag utmanar starka krafter"". www.dagenssamhalle.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2017-04-02.
- ^ SvenskPolitik1 (2013-07-31), Ekots lördagsintervju 2006 - Nalin Pekgul (S), retrieved 2019-03-25
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Joelsson, Filip. "Nalin Pekgul gör politisk comeback – ska bekämpa extremism". Metro (in Swedish). Retrieved 2019-03-25.
