Germany: State Appoints First Minister of Turkish Origin

Germany has its first government minister of Turkish origin -- the governor of the northern state of Lower Saxony on Monday appointed Aygül Özkan, the Hamburg-born daughter of Turkish immigrants, as minister of social affairs in a coup for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives.The governor of the northern German state of Lower Saxony has appointed Germany's first ever Muslim minister of Turkish origin at the government level. In a reshuffle announced on Monday by Governor Christian Wulff, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, 38-year-old Aygül Özkan became the region's new minister for social affairs.
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