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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yildiz Akdogan
(born 29 April 1973) is a Turkish-born Danish politician. She has been a
member of the Folketing-the parliament of Denmark-for the Social
Democrats since 2007. Along with Özlem Sara Cekic, she was one of the
first two female immigrant politicians to enter the Folketing. Akdogan
was born in Turkey and was raised by her paternal grandparents for the
first five-and-a-half years of her life. Her mother moved to Esbjerg in
Denmark shortly after her birth and her father was called up to do
military service in Turkey. The family were reunited in 1979, when
Akdogan and her father moved to Denmark. Prior to being elected to the
Folketing, Akdogan received an MSc in political science from Aarhus
University in 2006. She had previously worked as a journalist for the
Danish-Turkish newspaper Haber. She has published widely on social
integration and women's rights. Akdogan is a board member and
spokesperson for the Democratic Muslims, a network set up in the wake of
the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy.
