Berîvan Aymaz comes from a family of politicians. Her father was mayor of Bingöl, the town of her birth in Turkey. For years, he was the youngest mayor in the country, says Aymaz. He later became cultural attaché at the Turkish Embassy in Bonn, and in 1978 Aymaz moved to Germany with her family when she was six years old. „I didn’t know any German at all“, she says in a conversation in her constituency. „The mother of a school friend organized for me to learn German with her daughter four times a week.“