All major Belgian news outlets broadcasting in French and Flemish have included Göktaş, who was born in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, and previously served as a deputy in the Brussels Parliament, on their pages and bulletins.
Using the news of the Belgian news agency Belga, the Belgian press announced the news with the headline “Former Brussels Deputy Mahinur Özdemir became a minister in the Erdogan government”. In some media organizations, the appointment of Göktaş as a minister was given as the first news.
In the news, which stated that Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş is the only female minister in the cabinet, Göktaş’s biography information was also included.
In the news, Göktaş was expelled from his party in 2015 on the grounds that he was elected as a member of the Brussels Parliament in 2009, was the first deputy wearing a headscarf, did not recognize the Armenian allegations regarding the 1915 events, and later left politics in Belgium. Göktaş became Turkey’s Ambassador to Algeria in 2020. He was reminded that he was appointed as