Not only is the minister’s Green Party known as one of the most pro-open borders parties in Germany, but Özdemir himself is of Turkish origin.
Agricultural Minister Cem Özdemir, of the far-left Green Party, has sparked a fierce debate in Germany after calling for the country to rethink its migration policy and claims his daughter is being sexually harassed by men with a “migration background.”
Özdemir did not just make the comments offhand during an interview, but actually wrote them out in a guest column for FAZ, writing that his daughter, who is graduating from school next year, faces harassment from migrants and men with a migration background.
“When she is out and about in the city, she or her friends are often unpleasantly stared at or sexualized by men with a migrant background,” he wrote.
The father writes that his daughter has developed a “thick skin” due to these attacks, “but I can feel how it bothers her,” he wrote, adding “how disappointed she is that the underlying issues are not addressed more openly: the patriarchal structures and the role of women in many Islamic countries.”