{"id":7495,"date":"2008-11-18T09:15:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T06:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=7495"},"modified":"2013-10-12T22:31:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:31:20","slug":"green-leader-not-german-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/11\/18\/green-leader-not-german-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Green leader &#8216;not German Obama&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\"><strong>The first ethnic Turkish head of a German political party has dismissed any comparisons between himself and US President-elect Barack Obama.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cem Ozdemir, who was elected co-leader of the Green Party at the weekend, told Germany&#8217;s Bild am Sonntag newspaper such comparisons were &#8220;inappropriate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is enough for me to be Ozdemir of the Greens,&#8221; the 42-year-old said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ozdemir&#8217;s rise has prompted comparisons with that of Mr Obama &#8211; who will be the first black US president. <!-- E SF --><\/p>\n<p>At the Green Party&#8217;s weekend conference in Erfurt, eastern Germany, some of Mr Ozdemir&#8217;s supporters even wore badges that read &#8220;Yes We Cem&#8221;, in reference to an Obama campaign slogan.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ozdemir was born to Turkish Muslim parents in south-western Germany.<\/p>\n<p>In 1994, he became the first ethnic Turk to be elected to the country&#8217;s parliament. In 2004, he won a seat in the European Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>There are nearly three million ethnic Turks in Germany &#8211; making it the country&#8217;s largest ethnic minority.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/7732976.stm\">news.bbc.co.uk<\/span>, 17 November 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first ethnic Turkish head of a German political party has dismissed any comparisons between himself and US President-elect Barack Obama. Cem Ozdemir, who was elected co-leader of the Green Party at the weekend, told Germany&#8217;s Bild am Sonntag newspaper such comparisons were &#8220;inappropriate&#8221;. &#8220;It is enough for me to be Ozdemir of the Greens,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":42224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[145,878,879],"class_list":["post-7495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-germany","tag-barack-obama","tag-cem-ozdemir","tag-german-green-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}