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Mon 11 Nov 2008Ethnic Turk elected as joint leader of Greens in Germany
TWO WEEKS after Barack Obama's election, Germany's Greens ensured a minor sensation at the weekend by electing the first ethnic Turk as leader of a political party, writes Derek Scallyin Berlin.
The 42 year-old Cem Özdemir straddles the party's pragmatic "realist" and fundamentalist left wings and will work in tandem with left-wing party veteran Claudia Roth.
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