Sevim Çelebi-Gottschlich
Sevim Çelebi-Gottschlich (born in 1953 in Turkey) is a former German Politician (Alliance '90/The Greens when it was still the Alternative Liste).[1] Çelebi-Gottschlich migrated to Berlin from Turkey in 1970 at the age of 17.In 1987 she would cause a minor sensation when she became the first individual of Turkish origin to enter any West German Parliament when she joined the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin on the ticket of the Alternative Liste (AL).[1][2][3] When she began a parliamentary speech in Turkish in April 1987, members of the Christian Democratic Union drowned her out by pounding their fists on the table and she was forced to stop speaking.This biography article about a member of the German Alliance 90/The Greens Party is a stub.