Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius (born 18 June 1977) is a Dutch politician who has served as
Minister of Justice and Security in the
Fourth Rutte cabinet
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since 10 January 2022. A member of the
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
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(VVD), she previously served as a member of the
House of Representatives
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from 2017 to 2021 and
State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy from 2021 until 2022.
Early life
Yeşilgöz-Zegerius was born in
Ankara
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, Turkey, and emigrated to the Netherlands as a child. Her family is from a
Turkish-
Kurdish
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*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish languages
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern Kurdistan
**Eastern Kurdistan
**Northern Kurdistan
**Western Kurdistan
See also
* Kurd (dis ...
background and originally from
Tunceli
Tunceli ( ku, Dêrsim) is a city and municipality in eastern Turkey. It is the capital of Tunceli Province, located in the middle of the Eastern Anatolia Region. The city has a Kurds, Kurdish-majority population and was a site of the Dersim rebel ...
.
Political career
From 2014 to 2017, Yeşilgöz-Zegerius held a seat in the
municipal council
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of
Amsterdam
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. She was placed fourth on the
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
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list in the
2014 municipal election.
Yeşilgöz-Zegerius was elected to the House of Representatives in the
2017 general election. She initially served as her party's spokesperson for justice and security,
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''Politico Europe
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''. but her portfolio later included
climate policy
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and
energy policy
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.
On 25 May 2021, she was appointed
State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy in the demissionary
third Rutte cabinet
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, serving alongside
Mona Keijzer
Maria Cornelia Gezina "Mona" Keijzer (born 9 October 1968) is a Dutch politician and former civil servant. She served as State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy alongside Dilan Yesilgöz-Zegerius from 26 October 2017 until 25 ...
.
On 10 January 2022, she was appointed
Minister of Justice and Security in the
fourth Rutte cabinet
The Fourth Rutte cabinet is the current Government of the Netherlands. It was inaugurated on 10 January 2022. The cabinet is a continuation of the previous third Rutte cabinet and is formed by the conservative-liberal People's Party for Freedo ...
.
References
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1977 births
Living people
21st-century Dutch women politicians
21st-century Dutch politicians
Dutch people of Kurdish descent
Dutch people of Turkish descent
Women government ministers of the Netherlands
Members of the House of Representatives (Netherlands)
Municipal councillors of Amsterdam
Politicians from Ankara
Politicians from Amsterdam
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy politicians
Turkish emigrants to the Netherlands
State Secretaries for Economic Affairs of the Netherlands
Ministers of Justice of the Netherlands
Female justice ministers