Born in Brussels in 1982, Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş completed her undergraduate and master's degrees in the Department of Economics, Political and Social Sciences at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Becoming the first headscarf-wearing member of Brussels Parliament in 2009, she served until 2019 as the Deputy Chair of the Social Services Commission and the Deputy Chair of the Commission on Equal Opportunities for Men and Women of the Brussels Parliament.
Throughout her political career, she worked in the fields of women's entrepreneurship, violence against women, domestic violence and equal opportunity in addition to environment and urban planning both in the Brussels Parliament and in various NGOs.
Since 2019, she has been a member of the Women Consultative Council of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. She was appointed as the Ambassador of Algeria in 2020, which made her the first woman Ambassador of Turkey to North Africa.
On June 3, 2023, she was appointed as the Minister of Family and Social Services in the cabinet announced by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
She is married and has two children. She speaks French, English and Belgian Dutch.
Biography as published in the conference record. 184 words.
