Canan Bayram
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| Member of the Bundestag for Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg – Prenzlauer Berg East | |
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Assumed office 2017 |
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11 February 1966 Malatya, Turkey |
| Citizenship | German |
| Political party | Alliance '90/The Greens |
| Alma mater | University of Bonn |
Canan Bayram (born 11 February 1966) is a German lawyer and politician (Alliance 90/The Greens) of Kurdish-Turkish origin. She is a member of the 19th German Parliament (Bundestag). She was a member of the House of Representatives of Berlin from 2006 to 2017, when she was directly elected to the Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg – Prenzlauer Berg East electoral district in the 2017 federal election. She is currently the only Alliance 90/Green member of parliament to hold a direct mandate rather than being elected from the party list.
Bayram was born in Malatya, Turkey, and grew up in Germany in Nettetal and Brüggen. Later, she completed high school in Bonn and studied politics and law at the University of Bonn and passed her first law state exam. After an internship and passing her second law state exam she worked as an jurist in various federal ministries. Since 2003, she has been a lawyer in Berlin-Friedrichshain with a focus on labour law und family law.
Canan Bayram started her political career by joining the Social Democratic Party in 1999. In 2006 she was elected to the House of Representatives of Berlin in the district of Berlin-Friedrichshain, winning 28% of the vote in the district. She was a spokesperson for the SPD parliamentary caucus and a member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Home Affairs, Security and Order, as well as the Committee on Economic Affairs, Technology and Women. In May 2009, she defected from the SPD and joined the Alliance 90/The Greens in the House of Representatives of Berlin.
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