Coşkun Çörüz

Coşkun Çörüz is a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 politician

Politician

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 of Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

 descent. As a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal

Christian Democratic Appeal

The Christian Democratic Appeal is a centre-right Dutch Christian democratic political party. It suffered severe losses in the 2010 elections and fell from the first to the fourth place...

 (Christen-Democratisch Appèl) he has been an MP since May 29, 2001. He focuses on matters of security

Security

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 policy, judiciary

Judiciary

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, police

Police

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, international law

International law

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 and human rights

Human rights

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.

Çörüz is born in the Turkish district Salıpazarı

Salipazari

Salıpazarı is a district of Samsun Province of Turkey. The mayor is Halil Akgül ....

. He studied law at the University of Amsterdam and was a member of the municipal council

Municipal council

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 of Haarlem

Haarlem

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 from 1998 to 2001. Since May 2001 he is a member of the Dutch House of Representatives.

External links

House of Representatives biography