Nebahat Albayrak

Nebahat Albayrak


Member of the House of Representatives
In office 2 August 2011 – 19 September 2012
Preceded by	Myrthe Hilkens
In office 12 May 2010 – 12 April 2011
Succeeded by	Myrthe Hilkens
In office 19 May 1998 – 22 February 2007
State Secretary for Justice
In office 22 February 2007 – 23 February 2010
Prime Minister	Jan Peter Balkenende
Preceded by	Ella Kalsbeek
Succeeded by	Fred Teeven
Personal details
Born	Nebahat Albayrak (1968-04-10) 10 April 1968 Şarkışla, Turkey
Nationality	Turkish, Dutch
Political party	Labour Party
Residence	Rotterdam, Netherlands
Alma mater	Leiden University (LLM, International and European Union law)
Occupation	Politician, civil servant
Religion	Muslim
Website	(Dutch) Labour Party website

Nebahat Albayrak (born 10 April 1968, in Şarkışla) is a former Turkish-Dutch politician and civil servant. As a member of the Dutch Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid) she is a former State Secretary for Justice in the Netherlands. From 12 May 2010 to 19 September 2012 she was (again) an MP. From April till August 2011 she was on maternity leave. Myrthe Hilkens was replacing her.

Biography

Albayrak moved to the Netherlands in 1970. In 1993, Albayrak graduated from Leiden University in international and European law. As part of her degree she also attended lectures in Ankara at Ankara University and the Institut d’Études Françaises, and in Paris at the Institut d’Études Politiques.^[1]

Nebahat Albayrak

She worked at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations from 1993 to 1998. From 1998 to 2007 she was a member of the Dutch House of Representatives.^[1]

On 22 February 2007 Nebahat Albayrak was installed as State Secretary (junior minister) for Justice in the fourth Balkenende cabinet. She and Ahmed Aboutaleb are the first Muslims in a Dutch cabinet.^[2] The right wing Party for Freedom tried to prevent the installation of both Nebahat Albayrak and Ahmed Aboutaleb. The party also tried to pass a motion of no confidence in parliament directed against all parliamentarians or executive branch politicians with dual citizenship, claiming these politicians have a loyalty conflict or have the appearance of having one. Nebahat Albayrak has a Turkish and a Dutch passport. The motion was rejected by the House of Representatives, since no other party than the Party for Freedom supported it.

Claims of misuse of political power

In 2008 State Secretary Albayrak was accused of abusing her powers to reverse decisions made by the Immigration Service or the courts. Anonymous employees of the immigration department leaked confidential information to parliament member Sietse Fritsma (Party for Freedom) claiming Albayrak had reversed 3500 decisions "arbitrarily and without explanation". Albayrak has denied these allegations and stated she had only reversed 450 decisions. In comparison, her predecessor, Rita Verdonk (VVD), reversed 1150 decisions.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

References

(Dutch) Parlement.com biography

1 2 "ms. N. Albayrak". justitie.nl. Ministry of Justice. Archived from the original on 2007-08-24. Retrieved 2007-03-16.
↑ "Netherlands government sworn in". english.aljazeera.net. Al Jazeera. 2007-02-22. Archived from the original on 2008-11-12. Retrieved 2007-03-16.
↑ "IND'ers: Albayrak misbruikt positie - archief nrc.nl".
↑ "Publiek denken".
↑ "New Dutch Muslim Cabinet minister accuses lawmaker of racially motivated political attacks". [iht.com. International Herald Tribune. 2007-03-07. Retrieved 2007-03-16.
↑ "Motie "dubbele nationaliteit" verworpen". nos.nl (in Dutch). NOS. 2007-03-02. Retrieved 2007-03-16.

External links

Media related to Nebahat Albayrak at Wikimedia Commons

(Turkish) Milliyet.com.tr - Türkler hafife alınmamalı

Fourth Balkenende cabinet (2007–2010)

^{Preceded by: Third Balkenende cabinet · Succeeded by: Demissionary Fourth Balkenende cabinet}

Prime Minister	Jan Peter Balkenende General Affairs

Deputy Prime Ministers	Wouter Bos Finance André Rouvoet Youth and Family

Ministers	Guusje ter Horst Interior and Kingdom Relations Maxime Verhagen Foreign Affairs Ernst Hirsch Ballin Justice Maria van der Hoeven Economic Affairs Eimert van Middelkoop Defence Ab Klink Health, Welfare and Sport Ronald Plasterk Education, Culture and Science Camiel Eurlings Transport, Public Works and Water Management Gerda Verburg Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality Piet Hein Donner Social Affairs and Employment Jacqueline Cramer Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment

Minister without portfolio	Ella Vogelaar Minister of Housing and Integration) (2007–2008 Eberhard van der Laan Minister of Housing and Integration) (from 2008 Bert Koenders International Development

State Secretaries	Ank Bijleveld Interior and Kingdom Relations Frans Timmermans Foreign Affairs Jan Kees de Jager Finance Nebahat Albayrak Justice Frank Heemskerk Economic Affairs Cees van der Knaap Defence) (2007 Jack de Vries Defence) (from 2007 Jet Bussemaker Health, Welfare and Sport Marja van Bijsterveldt Education, Culture and Science Sharon Dijksma Education, Culture and Science Tineke Huizinga Transport, Public Works and Water Management Ahmed Aboutaleb Social Affairs and Employment) (2007–2008 Jetta Klijnsma Social Affairs and Employment) (from 2008

Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2010–12

House of Representatives, 17 June 2010 - 19 September 2012

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD - 31)	Blok Aptroot Van Ark Azmani Van Beek Berckmoes-Duindam De Boer Bosman Ten Broeke Van der Burg De Caluwé <Dezentjé Hamming-Bluemink> Dijkhoff Elias Harbers Hennis-Plasschaert Houwers Huizing <De Krom> Leegte De Liefde Lodders Lucas Van Miltenburg Mulder Neppérus <Nicolaï> Van Nieuwenhuizen <Rutte> Schaart <Schippers> Snijder-Hazelhoff Van der Steur Straus Taverne <Teeven> <Weekers> Ziengs <Zijlstra>

Labour Party (PvdA - 30)	Samsom Albayrak Arib Bouwmeester Çelik <Cohen> Van Dam Van Dekken Dijksma Dijsselbloem Dikkers Eijsink Groot Hamer Heijnen Hilkens Jacobi Jadnanansing Klijnsma <Kraneveldt> Kuiken De Lange <Leerdam> Marcouch Monasch Plasterk Recourt Smeets <Spekman> Timmermans Van der Veen Verbeet (Speaker) Vermeij Wolbert

Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA - 21)	Van Haersma Buma <Atsma> <Bijleveld> <Bijsterveldt> Biskop Blanksma-van den Heuvel Van Bochove Bruins Slot Çörüz Ferrier Haverkamp Van Hijum Holtackers <De Jager> <Joldersma> <Klink> Knops Koopmans Koppejan Omtzigt Ormel De Rouwe Smilde Sterk Van Toorenburg Uitslag <Verburg> <Verhagen> Van der Werf

Party for Freedom (PVV - 20)	Wilders Agema Beertema Van den Besselaar Bontes Bosma Van Dijck Dille Driessen Elissen Fritsma Gerbrands Graus Helder De Jong Van Klaveren Lucassen De Mos De Roon <Sharpe> Van Vliet

Socialist Party (SP - 15)	Roemer Bashir Van Bommel Van Dijk Van Gerven Gesthuizen Irrgang Jansen <Janssen> Karabulut Kooiman Leijten Van Raak Smits Ulenbelt De Wit

Democrats 66 (D66 - 10)	Pechtold Berndsen Dijkstra Hachchi Van der Ham Koolmees Koşer Kaya Schouw Van Veldhoven Verhoeven

GreenLeft (GL - 10)	Sap <Van den Berge> Braakhuis Dibi El Fassed Van Gent Grashoff <Halsema> Klaver Peters Van Tongeren Voortman

ChristianUnion (CU - 5)	Slob Ortega <Rouvoet> Schouten Voordewind Wiegman

Reformed Political Party (SGP - 2)	Van der Staaij Dijkgraaf

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

Independent 1 (I1 - 2)	Kortenoeven Hernandez

Independent 2 (I2 - 1)	Brinkman

Independent 3 (I3 - 1)	Van Bemmel

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, 2012–present See also: Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2006–10 See also: Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2011–15

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