What is Farid Azarkan?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Farid Azarkan |image = FaridAzarkan2017.jpg |office = Party leader |term_start = 26 September 2020 |term_end = |predecessor = [[Tunahan Kuzu]] |successor = |office1 = Parliamentary group leader |term_start1 = 21 March 2020 |term_end1 = |predecessor1 = Tunahan Kuzu |successor1 = |status2 = Acting |term_start2 = 23 April 2018 |term_end2 = 2 September 2018 |predecessor2 = Tunahan Kuzu |successor2 = Tunahan Kuzu |office3 = Member of the [[House of Representatives (Netherlands)|House of Representatives]] |term_start3 = 23 March 2017 |term_end3 = |predecessor3 = |successor3 = |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|10|16|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Ighmiren]], [[Morocco]] |death_date = |death_place = |nationality = [[Morocco|Moroccan]], [[Netherlands|Dutch]] |party = [[DENK]] |residence = [[Culemborg]], [[Gelderland]], Netherlands |alma_mater = [[Free University Amsterdam]],<br> [[University of Greenwich]],<br> [[Saxion University of Applied Sciences]] |website = [https://www.parlement.com/id/vka6bwkjuyco/f_farid_azarkan www.parlement.com] }} '''Farid Azarkan''' ([[Arabic language|Arabic]]: فريد ازركان ; born 16 October 1971) is a Dutch businessman and politician of the [[DENK]] party. == Politics == DENK won seats in the [[House of Representatives (Netherlands)|House of Representatives]] for the first time in the [[2017 Dutch general election]]. Thanks to this result, Azarkan and fellow party members [[Tunahan Kuzu]] and [[Selçuk Öztürk]] were sworn in on behalf of DENK on 23 March 2017. He has been an MP ever since, and has also become both parliamentary leader on 21 March 2020 and – as successor of Kuzu – party leader on 26 September 2020.<ref>[https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2020-09-26-azarkan-was-officially-elected-as-leader-of-denk.SJ59Jx1TSD.html Azarkan was officially elected as leader of DENK]{{Dead link|date=November 2024 |