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Nurten Yılmaz (née Erdost; born 17 September 1957) is an
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n politician and former member of the National Council. A member of the
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, she represented Vienna North West from October 2013 to December 2022. She was a member of the
Municipal Council and Landtag of Vienna As Vienna, the capital of Austria is both a city and a state, the 100 members of the Municipal Council (''Gemeinderat'') of the city of Vienna also act as members of the Landtag (legislative assembly) of the state of Vienna. Members serve for five ...
from April 2001 to October 2013. Yılmaz was born on 17 September 1957 in
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, Turkey. She and her family migrated to Austria in 1966. She studied at an
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(HTL) in
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, graduating in 1977. She worked in the statistical department of the until 1990. She then worked for the
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(SPÖ)'s Federal Women's Secretariat () from 1992 to 1997. Later she worked for , an organisation affiliated with the SPÖ. Yılmaz has been active in the SPÖ and its
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since she was a teenager and joined the party in 1981. She was a member of the district council () in
Ottakring Ottakring () is the 16th Districts of Vienna, District in the city of Vienna, Austria (). It is located west of the central districts, north of Penzing (Vienna), Penzing and south of Hernals. Ottakring has some heavily populated urban areas with m ...
from January 1999 to April 2001 and had responsibility for children and youth issues. She was a member of the
Municipal Council and Landtag of Vienna As Vienna, the capital of Austria is both a city and a state, the 100 members of the Municipal Council (''Gemeinderat'') of the city of Vienna also act as members of the Landtag (legislative assembly) of the state of Vienna. Members serve for five ...
from April 2001 to October 2013. She was elected to the National Council in the 2013 legislative election. She retired from politics in December 2022 and was replaced by
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in the National Council. Yılmaz is a co-founder of the Women's Initiative for Bicultural Marriages and Cohabitation () and a board member of the Austrian-Turkish Friendship Association (). She has two daughters.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Yilmaz, Nurten 1957 births 21st-century Austrian women politicians Living people Members of the 25th National Council (Austria) Members of the 26th National Council (Austria) Members of the 27th National Council (Austria) Members of the Municipal Council and Landtag of Vienna People from Ottakring Social Democratic Party of Austria politicians Turkish emigrants to Austria Women members of the National Council (Austria)