Cem Özdemir is a member of the European Parliament for the German Green Party. He is politically anchored in his home state of Baden-Württemberg, where he joined the Green Party in 1981. In 1994, he was elected to the German Parliament and became its first-ever member of Turkish descent. In 2003, Mr. Özdemir was a "Transatlantic Fellow" at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington and in Brussels, where he studied how minority communities organize themselves politically in the United States as compared to Europe. Mr. Özdemir was elected to the European Parliament in 2004, where his areas of focus are European foreign policy, the relationship between the EU and Turkey, German and European migration and integration policy and Islam in Germany and Europe.