Online time: Mr. Öztas, you have been mayor of Heusenstamm, a town with 19,000 inhabitants since 2016. How did it come about?
Öztas: I was born and raised in Frankfurt as son of Turkish parents. When I was looking for a place to DerHeirat with my wife, it was difficult at that time to find anything with my name. We also wanted to leave DieGroßstadt anyway. So we bought ourselves a house in Heusenstamm.
Time online: and Dannengagierten in local politics?
Öztas: No, not at all. I have been in SPD since turn of millennium, originally to protest against RolandKochs campaign against dual citizenship. Wirklichaktiv I never was. But I had different honorary positions. You knew me.
Online time: How did you come to your mayor's candidacy?
Öztas: DerSPD-local club chairman Just asked me if I wanted to be InHeusenstamm mayor. One has to know that CDU hierfast mayor for 70 years. My first question to DenOrtsvereinsvorsitzenden was wher he was still sober.
Öztas Hackettwas born in 1977 in Frankfurt am Main and worked re for many years as a business lawyer. In 2008 he moved to Heusenstamm, where he has been mayor since 2016. He is a member of SPD.
Time Online: Was he sober?
Öztas: Yes, and he meant it completely seriously. So came one to or. I was on DenVeranstaltungen in place, presented my visions for Heusenstamm at GrößerenPodiumsdiskussionen. They probably promised people.
Online Time: They put ir oath in words "so help me God." In public, however, y do not talk about ir religion. Why?
Öztas: The problem is that religion is politicized. My faith signor Important, but it should not play a role in public. Ithink, Faith is a relationship between an individual and a god. This relationship must not be disclosed to anyone. I respect everyone, I can work auchsehr well with local pastors, but I respect auchdiejenigen who do not believe.
Time Online: People Hakennicht after? You are first Turkish-born mayor of Hesse, Germany does not even have a similar background eineHandvoll your counterpart. This is zumindestbesonders.
Öztas: It was an issue in election campaign. It was claimed to wear my Frauwürde headscarf. But that was quite easy to insure: you trägtkeines. Orwise, my faith is not an issue here. People know who I'm where I grew up, how I think, how I act.
Date Of Update: 21 March 2018, 12:03
