Metin Çelik (born 3 April 1970 in
Gölcük) is a
Turkish-Dutch
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politician
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and former
police officer
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. As a member of the Dutch
Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid) he was an
MP from 17 June 2010 to 19 September 2012. He focused on matters of
primary
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,
secondary
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and
special education
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. As of 28 March, 2019, he has been the chairman of the
DENK
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political party.
Çelik is a former police officer of the city of
Rotterdam
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and its suburbs. From 1998 to 2010, he was a member of the
municipal council
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of Rotterdam.
References
*
Parlement.com biography
1970 births
Living people
DENK politicians
Dutch people of Turkish descent
Dutch police officers
Knights of the Order of Orange-Nassau
Labour Party (Netherlands) politicians
Members of the 25th Parliament of Turkey
Members of the House of Representatives (Netherlands)
Municipal councillors of Rotterdam
People from Gölcük
Turkish emigrants to the Netherlands
21st-century Dutch politicians
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