Tunahan Kuzu

Tunahan Kuzu

Tunahan Kuzu (born June 5, 1981) is a Dutch politician. He is Turkish. He is a former member of the Labor Party (PvdA). Since September 20, 2012, he has been an MP. On November 13, 2014, Kuzu and Selçuk Öztürk left the Labor Party and formed the Group Kuzu/Öztürk.^[1] On November 18, 2014, he became Parliamentary group leader.

Kuzu grew up in Maassluis and studied public administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He worked as a health care advisor for PricewaterhouseCoopers, and was also a member of the municipal council of Rotterdam from 2008 to 2012.

Kuzu attracted international attention in September 2016 when he refused to shake the hand of Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netenyahu before a meeting at the States General of the Netherlands. In a statement posted to Facebook, Kuzu explained his action as a protest against human rights abuses committed against Palestinian civilians in the Palestinian territories.^[2]^[3]^[4]

References

(Dutch) Parlement.com biography

↑ Two Turkish deputies expelled from Dutch labor party; Today's Zaman; 14 November 2014
↑ Mackey, Robert (7 September 2016). "Anti-Racist Dutch MP Refuses to Shake Netanyahu's Hand". The Intercept. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
↑ Sims, Alexandra (14 September 2016). "Dutch MP refuses to shake hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu". independent.co.uk. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
↑ "Dutch MP snubs Netanyahu, refuses to shake Israeli PM's hand (VIDEO)". rt.com. 8 September 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2016.

Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2012–present

House of Representatives, 20 September 2012 - present

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD - 40)	Zijlstra Van Ark Azmani Berckmoes-Duindam <Blok> De Boer Bosma Bosman Ten Broeke Van der Burg De Caluwé <Dijkhoff> R. Dijkstra Duisenberg Elias Geselschap Harbers Heerema <Hennis-Plasschaert> <Huizing> De Lange <Leegte> <De Liefde> Van der Linde <Litjens> Lodders <Lucas> Van Miltenburg Moors An. Mulder Neppérus <Van Nieuwenhuizen> Nijkerken-de Haan Van Oosten Potters Van der Ree A. Rutte <M. Rutte> <Schippers> Schut-Welkzijn <Van der Steur> Straus Taverne Teeven Tellegen <Van Veen> Veldman <Verheijen> Visser De Vries Vuijk <Weekers> Van Wijngaarden Van 't Wout Ziengs

Labour Party (PvdA - 35)	Kuiken Arib (Speaker) Asante <Bonis> Bouwmeester Brouwer Çegerek <Van Dam> Van Dekken <O. Van Dijk> <Dijsselbloem> (Dikkers) Eijsink Fokke Groot Günal-Gezer <Hamer> <Heijnen> <Hilkens> Hoogland Jacobi <Jadnanansing> Kerstens <Klijnsma> Van Laar Leenders Maij Marcouch Mohandis Nijboer Oosenbrug <Plasterk> Rebel-Volp Recourt <Samsom> Servaes Tanamal <Timmermans> Ünver van der Velde Vermeij Vermue J. Vos M. Vos De Vries Wolbert Ypma Yücel

Socialist Party (SP - 15)	Roemer Bashir Van Bommel J. Van Dijk Van Gerven Gesthuizen <Jansen> Karabulut Kooiman Leijten Merkies Van Nispen Van Raak Siderius Smaling <Smits> <Swinkels> Ulenbelt <De Wit>

Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA - 13)	Van Haersma Buma Amhaouch Bruins Slot Geurts Heerma Van Helvert <Van Hijum> Keijzer Knops Ag. Mulder Omtzigt <Oskam> Rog Ronnes <De Rouwe> Van Toorenburg

Party for Freedom (PVV - 12)	Wilders Agema Beertema Bosma Van Dijck Fritsma <Gerbrands> De Graaf Graus Helder Klever Madlener De Roon

Democrats 66 (D66 - 12)	Pechtold Belhaj Bergkamp <Berndsen> P. Dijkstra <Hachchi> Koolmees Koşer Kaya Van Meenen <Schouw> Sjoerdsma Swinkels Van Veldhoven Verhoeven Van Weyenberg

Christian Union (CU - 5)	Segers Bruins Dik-Faber Schouten <Slob> Voordewind

GreenLeft (GL - 4)	Klaver <Ellemeet> Grashoff <Van Ojik> <Sap> Van Tongeren Voortman

Reformed Political Party (SGP - 3)	Van der Staaij Bisschop Dijkgraaf

Party for the Animals (PvdD - 2)	Thieme Ouwehand <Wassenberg>

50PLUS (50+ - 1)	Krol <Baay-Timmerman>

Independents (Group Bontes/Van Klaveren) (Bontes/Van Klaveren - 2)	Bontes Van Klaveren

Independents (Group Kuzu/Öztürk) (Kuzu/Öztürk - 2)	Kuzu Öztürk

Independent (Member Van Vliet) (Van Vliet - 1)	Van Vliet

Independent (Member Klein) (Klein - 1)	Klein

Independent (Member Houwers) (Houwers - 1)	Houwers

Independent (Member Monasch) (Monasch - 1)	Monasch

Bold signifies the Parliamentary leader (first mentioned) Bold also signifies the Speaker Brackets () signifies a temporary absent member Italics signifies a temporary member <> signifies a member who prematurely left this House of Representatives See also: Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2010–12 See also: Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2015–present See also: Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2011–15

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