In 1994 the first MP of Turkish origin was elected to the Bundestag: Cem Ozdemir for the Greens.

Currently there are 5 MPs of Turkish origins in the German Bundestag (0.8 percent):

		Lale Akgün (SPD)				Sevim Dagdelen (Linke)				Hakki Keskin (Linke)
		Ekin Deligöz (Greens)				Hüseyin-Kenan Aydin (Linke)

Turks are also present in many regional parliaments. In the regional parliament of Berlin there are 149 parliamentarians, 7 of which are of Turkish or Kurdish origin (4.7 percent):

		Dilek Kolat (SPD)				Canan Bayram (SPD)				Ozcan Mutlu (Greens)
		Bilkay Oney (Greens)				Evrim Baba (Die Linke)				Giyasettin Sayan (Die Linke)
		Emine Demirbüken (CDU)

• Homepage of the German Bundestag (English)
• Regional Parliament of Berlin, Abgeordnetenhaus in German only)
• The New York Times, After U.S. Breakthrough, Europe Looks in Mirror, 11 November 2008
• Book by Mely Kiyak: 10 für Deutschland: Gespräche mit türkeistämmigen Abgeordneten (2007)