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The large-scale of immigration of Turkish workers from the beginning of the 1960s was on the one hand, due to the high population growth and mass unemployment within Turkey, and on the other, due to the demand for labour in north-west Europe.<ref>{{Harvnb|Eryılmaz|2002|loc=62}}.</ref> [[West Germany]], like other Western European nations, began to experience a labour shortage by the mid-1950s.<ref>{{Harvnb|Schissler|2000|loc=188}}.</ref> Recruitment of workers from Mediterranean countries was one easy solution to this problem.<ref>{{Harvnb|Schönwälder|Ohliger|Triadafilopoulos|2003|loc=168}}.</ref> In 1961, the construction of the [[Berlin Wall]] exacerbated West Germany’s labour crisis by restricting the flow of immigrants from [[East Germany]]. Turkey at the same time experienced unemployment. The Turkish government asked Germany to recruit Turkish guest workers. [[Theodor Blank]], Secretary of State for Employment, was opposed to such agreements, believing that the cultural gap between Germany and Turkey would be too large. He also argued that Germany needed no additional foreign laborers, because there were enough unemployed people living in the poorer regions of Germany who could take these jobs. The [[United States]] however, put some political pressure on Germany, as it wanted to stabilize Turkey. The German Department of Foreign Affairs carried on negotiations after this and in 1961 an agreement was reached.<ref>Heike Knortz: Diplomatische Tauschgeschäfte. "Gastarbeiter" in der westdeutschen Diplomatie und Beschäftigungspolitik 1953-1973. Böhlau Verlag, Köln 2008</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Cook|2001|loc=985}}.</ref> Pressure from German employers in 1962 and 1963 played a key role in ending the two-year limit on the period for which Turkish workers were permitted to stay in West Germany.<ref>{{Harvnb|Nathans|2004|loc=242}}.</ref>
The large-scale of immigration of Turkish workers from the beginning of the 1960s was on the one hand, due to the high population growth and mass unemployment within Turkey, and on the other, due to the demand for labour in north-west Europe.<ref>{{Harvnb|Eryılmaz|2002|loc=62}}.</ref> [[West Germany]], like other Western European nations, began to experience a labour shortage by the mid-1950s.<ref>{{Harvnb|Schissler|2000|loc=188}}.</ref> Recruitment of workers from Mediterranean countries was one easy solution to this problem.<ref>{{Harvnb|Schönwälder|Ohliger|Triadafilopoulos|2003|loc=168}}.</ref> In 1961, the construction of the [[Berlin Wall]] exacerbated West Germany’s labour crisis by restricting the flow of immigrants from [[East Germany]]. Turkey at the same time experienced unemployment. The Turkish government asked Germany to recruit Turkish guest workers. [[Theodor Blank]], Secretary of State for Employment, was opposed to such agreements, believing that the cultural gap between Germany and Turkey would be too large. He also argued that Germany needed no additional foreign laborers, because there were enough unemployed people living in the poorer regions of Germany who could take these jobs. The [[United States]] however, put some political pressure on Germany, as it wanted to stabilize Turkey[citation needed]. The German Department of Foreign Affairs carried on negotiations after this and in 1961 an agreement was reached.<ref>Heike Knortz: Diplomatische Tauschgeschäfte. "Gastarbeiter" in der westdeutschen Diplomatie und Beschäftigungspolitik 1953-1973. Böhlau Verlag, Köln 2008</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Cook|2001|loc=985}}.</ref> Pressure from German employers in 1962 and 1963 played a key role in ending the two-year limit on the period for which Turkish workers were permitted to stay in West Germany.<ref>{{Harvnb|Nathans|2004|loc=242}}.</ref>


In 1961, a total of 7,116 Turks migrated to Germany as [[guest workers]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Şen|2002|loc=31}}.</ref> The recruitment treaty in 1961 made Germany the prime host country for Turkish guest workers and by 1973, some 80% of the Turks in [[Western Europe]] lived in Germany, and although this share had decreased to 70% by 1990, Germany remained by far the most important country of settlement for Turkish immigrants.<ref>{{Harvnb|Lucassen|2005|loc=147}}.</ref> Most Turks were convinced that they would only stay in Germany temporarily and would one day return to Turkey to build a new life for themselves with the money they had earned. During the [[recession]] of 1966-1967, the number of Turks leaving Germany rapidly increased; and the [[1973 oil crisis]] also marked a period of departure.<ref>{{Harvnb|Barbieri|1998|loc=29}}.</ref> The last increase in departures in 1981-1984 was caused by mass unemployment in Germany and the policy of giving remigration bonuses to Turks who were willing to return to their homeland for good. Ultimately, however, the number of migrants who returned to Turkey remained relatively small and did not stop the rapid increase of the Turkish population in Germany.<ref>{{Harvnb|Lucassen|2005|loc=148-149}}.</ref>
In 1961, a total of 7,116 Turks migrated to Germany as [[guest workers]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Şen|2002|loc=31}}.</ref> The recruitment treaty in 1961 made Germany the prime host country for Turkish guest workers and by 1973, some 80% of the Turks in [[Western Europe]] lived in Germany, and although this share had decreased to 70% by 1990, Germany remained by far the most important country of settlement for Turkish immigrants.<ref>{{Harvnb|Lucassen|2005|loc=147}}.</ref> Most Turks were convinced that they would only stay in Germany temporarily and would one day return to Turkey to build a new life for themselves with the money they had earned. During the [[recession]] of 1966-1967, the number of Turks leaving Germany rapidly increased; and the [[1973 oil crisis]] also marked a period of departure.<ref>{{Harvnb|Barbieri|1998|loc=29}}.</ref> The last increase in departures in 1981-1984 was caused by mass unemployment in Germany and the policy of giving remigration bonuses to Turks who were willing to return to their homeland for good. Ultimately, however, the number of migrants who returned to Turkey remained relatively small and did not stop the rapid increase of the Turkish population in Germany.<ref>{{Harvnb|Lucassen|2005|loc=148-149}}.</ref>

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Turks in Germany
Almanya Türkleri
File:Turkisch-day-in-Berlin.jpg
Turkish parade in Berlin
Regions with significant populations
North Rhine-Westphalia · Stuttgart · Munich · Berlin · Frankfurt
Languages
Turkish · German

Turks in Germany (Turkish: Almanya Türkleri; German: Deutsch-Türken) refers to Turks and people of Turkish descent in Germany. The term is not confined to ethnic Turks but also includes ethnic Kurds and generally all ethnicities from Turkey living in Germany. German Turks form the largest ethnic minority.[4][5][6] Estimates range between 2.5–2.7 million[7], 2.7 million[8], 3.5 million[9][dead link] and more than 4 million Turks and German citizens with part or full Turkish ancestry in Germany,[10][11] forming about 4-5% of Germany's total population.[3] Out of this group, Kurds are estimated to number around 500.000 people.[12]

History

Early settlement

The German states have been in contact with Turks since the 17th and 18th centuries when the Ottoman Turks attempted to expand their territories beyond the north Balkan territories. Two sieges were held in Vienna in 1529 and 1683.[13] It was the latter incident that, after the retreat of the Ottoman army, left behind many Muslim Turks who first became permanent residents in Germany. The relief of Vienna and the Ottoman retreat left behind large numbers of Ottoman soldiers and camp followers, either as stragglers or prisoners.[14]

Berlin's Turkish cemetery alongside an Ottoman style mosque, built in 1863

A new phase commenced with the expansion of Prussia in the mid-18th century. In 1731, the Duke of Kurland presented twenty Turkish guardsmen to King Frederick William I, and at one time, about 1,000 Muslim soldiers are said to have served in the Prussian cavalry.[14] The Prussian king’s fascination with the enlightenment was reflected in their consideration for the religious concerns of their Muslim troops.

In 1740 Frederick the Great stated (in the context of affirming the toleration of Catholics) that "All religions are just as good as each other, as long as the people who practice them are honest, and even if Turks and heathens came and wanted to populate this country, then we would build mosques and temples for them".[15]

In practice, already the first contingent of Turkish guardsmen had been given the use of a prayer room on Sundays. It soon became necessary to establish a Turkish/Muslim cemetery in Berlin, in which a mosque was finally built in 1866.[14] Diplomatic relations were established between Berlin and Istanbul in the 18th century, and by the 19th century trading treaties were set up between the two cities. These developments encouraged the crossover of citizens between the Ottoman and German states.[16] As a consequence to these developments, the Turkish community in Germany, and particularly in Berlin, grew significantly in the years before the First World War.[17]

Immigration to Germany

Turks in Berlin before the recruitment agreement[18]
1878 41
1893 198
1917 2,046
1925 1,164
1933 585
1938 3,310
1945 79

The large-scale of immigration of Turkish workers from the beginning of the 1960s was on the one hand, due to the high population growth and mass unemployment within Turkey, and on the other, due to the demand for labour in north-west Europe.[19] West Germany, like other Western European nations, began to experience a labour shortage by the mid-1950s.[20] Recruitment of workers from Mediterranean countries was one easy solution to this problem.[21] In 1961, the construction of the Berlin Wall exacerbated West Germany’s labour crisis by restricting the flow of immigrants from East Germany. Turkey at the same time experienced unemployment. The Turkish government asked Germany to recruit Turkish guest workers. Theodor Blank, Secretary of State for Employment, was opposed to such agreements, believing that the cultural gap between Germany and Turkey would be too large. He also argued that Germany needed no additional foreign laborers, because there were enough unemployed people living in the poorer regions of Germany who could take these jobs. The United States however, put some political pressure on Germany, as it wanted to stabilize Turkey[citation needed]. The German Department of Foreign Affairs carried on negotiations after this and in 1961 an agreement was reached.[22][23] Pressure from German employers in 1962 and 1963 played a key role in ending the two-year limit on the period for which Turkish workers were permitted to stay in West Germany.[24]

In 1961, a total of 7,116 Turks migrated to Germany as guest workers.[25] The recruitment treaty in 1961 made Germany the prime host country for Turkish guest workers and by 1973, some 80% of the Turks in Western Europe lived in Germany, and although this share had decreased to 70% by 1990, Germany remained by far the most important country of settlement for Turkish immigrants.[26] Most Turks were convinced that they would only stay in Germany temporarily and would one day return to Turkey to build a new life for themselves with the money they had earned. During the recession of 1966-1967, the number of Turks leaving Germany rapidly increased; and the 1973 oil crisis also marked a period of departure.[27] The last increase in departures in 1981-1984 was caused by mass unemployment in Germany and the policy of giving remigration bonuses to Turks who were willing to return to their homeland for good. Ultimately, however, the number of migrants who returned to Turkey remained relatively small and did not stop the rapid increase of the Turkish population in Germany.[28]

Family reunification

In the 1970s, some 400,000 Turkish workers returned to Turkey, but others took advantage of the right of family reunification to have their families join them in Germany.[29] As a result, between 1974–1988, the number of Turks in Germany nearly doubled, acquiring a normalised sex ratio and a much younger age profile than the German population because of the larger numbers of children per family. By 1987, 21% of ethnic Germans were under the age of 21, compared to 42% of the Turks in Germany.[30] As the recession of 1967 temporarily stopped the progress of worker recruitment, when it resumed, the targeted employees had changed as the BfA (Bundesversicherungsanstalt für Angestellte) granted most work visas to women. This was in part because labour shortages continued in low paying, low-status service jobs such as electronics, textiles, and garment work; and in part to further the goal of family reunification.[31] Family reunification was a solution to the perceived social threat the foreign workers posed, single men living in worker hostels or dormitories, with extra money in their pockets. Many wives did join their husbands in Germany, but women also came hoping to bring their husbands and children to Germany in the future. Moreover, Turkish workers in Germany were able to save enough money to return home to marry and bring their brides back to Germany when the 1974 Unification of Families Law made this easier. By 1976, 27% of Turks in West Germany were women.[32]

Fall of the Berlin Wall

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the reunification of East and West Germany was followed by intense public debate around the articulations of national identity and citizenship, including the place of Germany’s Turkish minority in the future of a united Germany. These debates about citizenship were all accompanied by expressions of xenophobia and ethnic violence that targeted the Turkish population.[33] Anti-immigrant sentiment was especially strong in the former eastern states of Germany, which underwent profound social and economic transformations during the reunification process. Turkish communities experienced considerable fear for their safety throughout Germany, with some 1,500 reported cases of right wing violence, and 2,200 cases the year after.[34] The political rhetoric calling for foreigner-free zones (Ausländer-freie Zonen) and the rise of neo-Nazi groups sharpened public awareness of integration issues and generated intensified support among liberal Germans for the competing idea of Germany as a ‘multicultural’ society. Citizenship laws that established eligibility according to place of birth rather than according to descent have been slow in coming and restrictions on dual citizenship are still onerous. However, increasing numbers of second-generation Turks have opted for German citizenship and are becoming more involved in the political process.[35]

After 2000

In 2010, Chancellor Angela Merkel said that multiculturalism in Germany had "failed utterly". The German leader said it had been an illusion to think that Germans and foreign workers could "live happily side by side". At a conference of the youth wing of the Christian Democratic Union party, the German leader said (in reference to guest workers) "At the start of the 60s we invited the guest-workers to Germany. We kidded ourselves for a while that they wouldn't stay, that one day they'd go home. That isn't what happened. And of course the tendency was to say: let's be 'multikulti' and live next to each other and enjoy being together, [but] this concept has failed, failed utterly." [36]

Turkish citizens in Germany[37][38][39][40][41][42]
Year Population Year Population
1961 7,116 1986 1,425,721
1962 15,300 1987 1,481,369
1963 27,100 1988 1,523,678
1964 85,200 1989 1,612,632
1965 132,800 1990 1,694,649
1966 161,000 1991 1,779,586
1967 172,400 1992 1,854,945
1968 205,400 1993 1,918,395
1969 322,400 1994 1,965,577
1970 469,200 1995 2,014,320
1971 652,800 1996 2,049,060
1972 712,300 1997 2,107,426
1973 910,500 1998 2,110,223
1974 910,500 1999 2,053,564
1975 1,077,100 2000 1,998,536
1976 1,079,300 2001 1,998,534
1977 1,118,000 2004 1,764,318
1978 1,165,100 2006 1,738,831
1979 1,268,300 2007 1,713,551
1980 1,462,400 2008 1,688,370
1981 1,546,300 2009 1,658,083
1982 1,580,700 2010 1,629,480
1983 1,552,300
1984 1,425,800
1985 1,400,400

Demographics

See also: Demographics of Germany

Estimates of the Turkish population in Germany range between 2.5–2.7 million[7], 2.7 million[8], 3.5 million [9][dead link][43][44][45][46] and 4 million[10][11][47][48][49][50][51] people having at least one parent immigrated from Turkey. Turks account for 63% of the total Muslim population in Germany, by far the largest single group.[7]

In 2008, there were 1,688,370 Turkish citizens (889,003 males and 799,367 females) in Germany which accounted for 25.1% of Germany's foreign population and thus the largest ethnic minority.[1] The official number of Turks with Turkish citizenship in Germany is falling, partly because about 30-70,000 are taking on German citizenship per year (with a downward trend, however[40]), and since the year 2000, children born in Germany are entitled to adopt German citizenship if at least one parent has lived for eight years in Germany and has a perpetual residence permit.[52][53]

In 2005, there were 840,000 German citizens of Turkish origin.[54] Overall, the number of German residents with origins in Turkey was approximately 2,812,000 or approximately 3.4% of Germany's population.[55] In 2010, the Embassy of Germany said that there are 3.5 million people of Turkish origin living in Germany and that a further 3 million Turks have spent part of their lives in Germany.[9] Other estimates suggest that there are now over 4 million people of Turkish descent living in Germany.[10]

Population distribution

Turks in Germany are concentrated predominantly in urban centers. Currently, about 60% of Turkish immigrants live in cities whilst at least a quarter of Turks live in smaller towns.[56] The vast majority are found in the former West Germany. The majority live in industrial regions such as the states of North Rhine-Westphalia, and Baden-Württemberg and the working neighbourhoods of cities like Berlin (especially in Kreuzberg which is known as Little Istanbul and Neukölln), Cologne, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Mannheim, Mainz, Munich, and Stuttgart.[57][58]

State Number of Turks % of State population % of Turks in Germany[59][60][61]
North Rhine-Westphalia
1,100,000
6.0
32.0
Baden-Württemberg
600,000
5.5
17.0
Bavaria
450,000
3.5
11.0
Hesse
400,000
6.5
8.0
Berlin
300,000
8.5
8.5
Lower Saxony
250,000
3.0
6.5
Rhineland-Palatinate
130,000
3.0
3.5
Hamburg
120,000
6.5
3.5
Schleswig-Holstein
60,000
2.0
2.0
Bremen
60,000
7.0
1.5
Neue Länder (former East Germany)
30,000
0.3
1.0
Saarland
25,000
2.5
1.0
Total ~3,500,000 4.5 100.0

Structure

The age structure of the Turkish population in Germany is dramatically different from that of the German population as a whole. A quarter of the mainstream German population is older than 60 years, compared to only 5% of the Turkish population.[62] The year 1973 is a milestone with regard to the historical development and changes which have occurred in the social structure of Turkish migrants. This is mainly due to the reunification of families. Around 53% of migrants came to Germany through family reunification and already around 17% of Turks who live in Germany were born in the country.[63]

The proportion of men and women who reside in Germany has balanced out since the 1960s. 54.2% of Turks in Germany are male and 45.8% are female. Of the population, 50.5% are between 14 and 29 years old, whereas among Germans the comparable proportion is only 25%. In the Turkish population, 33.8% are between 39 and 49 years old, while 32% of Germans are within this age group. Only 15.7% of Turks are age fifty and above, while this is true of 43% of Germans. Overall, Turks in Germany make up a younger population than do Germans.[64]

Characteristics

The German state does not keep statistics on ethnicity but, subsequently, categorizes ethnic groups originating from Turkey as being of Turkish national origin. This has the consequence of ethnic minorities from Turkey living in Germany being referred to as "Turks". However, about one-fourth[65][66] to one-fifth[67][68] of Turkish nationals are ethnic Kurds (amounting to some 350,000).[69] Furthermore, the number of ethnic Turks who have immigrated to Germany from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, the Republic of Macedonia, Romania and other traditional areas of Turkish settlement which were once part of the Ottoman territories in Europe are unknown as these Turkish minorities are categorised by their citizenship rather than their Turkish ethnicity.

Other Turkish communities

The official estimates of the Turkish immigrant population in Germany does not include the Turks whose origins go back to the Ottoman Empire. In Germany, there are ethnic Turkish people such as Turks from Bulgaria, Turks from Cyprus, Turks from Greece (Crete  / Dodecanese  / Western Thrace), Turks from Romania and Yugoslavia. These populations, which have different nationalities, share the same ethnic, linguistic, cultural and religious origins as Turkish nationals.[70]

Bulgaria

See also: Turks in Bulgaria and Bulgarians in Germany

From the early 1990s Western Europe began to attract Turks from Bulgaria for the first time in their social history. Migration to Germany, in particular, was initiated by those Bulgarian Turks who, for various reasons, were unable to join the first massive migration wave to Turkey in 1989 or who were part of the subsequent return wave which was dissatisfied with the conditions of life or the social adjustment prospects there. The majority of Turks from Bulgaria migrated to Germany in the 1990s asylum regime, which provided generous social benefits.[71]

Bulgarian Turks are to be found predominantly in the less protected sectors of the German labour market associated with ethnic businesses that require higher flexibility and tougher working conditions. They appear to rely for employment predominantly on co-ethnic networks established by German Turks. The majority of this group of Turks are relatively new in Germany which now consists of regular migrants who legalised their status largely through marriages of convenience to German citizens. Some members of this group have managed to bring their children to Germany whilst there are also a smaller number of people who have given birth in Germany.[72]

Greece

See also: Cretan Turks, Turks of the Dodecanese, Turks of Western Thrace, and Muslim minority of Greece

There are some members of the Greek Muslim community among the some 350,000 Greeks living in Germany who are Turkish-speaking or who espouse a Turkish identity.[73] The majority of Turks come from Western Thrace.[74] In the 1960s and 1970s, the Thracian tobacco industry was affected by a severe crisis and many tobacco growers lost their income. This resulted in many Turks leaving their homes and immigrating to Germany with estimates suggesting that today there are now between 12,000[75] and 25,000[76] residing in Germany.

Lebanon

See also: Turks in Lebanon

In 1950, thousands of Turks left the Turkish city of Mardin and headed for Lebanon because of the economic crises and unemployment in Turkey. Though the first Turks who left for Lebanon were originally just going to make money, they started to plan the rest of their lives there (mainly in Beirut). However, most of these Turks then migrated to European countries due to the war between the Arabs and the Israelis. When the Israel Lebanon war took place in 2006, more than 20,000 Turks fled Lebanon, forced to take refuge in Germany and various other European countries.[77]

Republic of Macedonia

See also: Turks in Macedonia and Macedonians in Germany

Culture

See also: Culture of Germany and Culture of Turkey
Turkish and Turkish Cypriot youth performing as an Ottoman military band in Uetersen

Due to the geographic proximity of Germany and Turkey, cultural transfer and influence from the country of origin has remained considerable among the Turkish minority. Furthermore, the majority of second-generation Turks appear to have developed emotional and cultural ties to their parents' country and also to the country which they live in and intend to remain.[78] Most Turks live in two conflicting cultures with contrasting behaviour codes and patterns of belonging. At work or school, German culture tends to dominate, while during leisure time social networks divide along ethnic lines of the Turkish culture. In the first generation of migrants, social networks were almost exclusively Turkish, and now in the second and third generations this segregation line remains just as effective as ever.[79]

Language

See also: Languages of Germany

The Turkish language is Germany’s main immigrant language.[80][81][82] The second and third generation Turks often speak Turkish with a German accent or even modelled on a German dialect. Some modify their Turkish by adding German grammatical and syntactical structures. The majority learn Turkish in their home, neighbourhood and community. Some attend Turkish classes offered at their local school whilst others study Turkish as a foreign language, a subject now offered in many German schools.[83] In some states of Germany, Turkish has even been approved as a subject to be studied for the Abitur.[84]

Turkish in Germany is often used not only by members of its own community but also by people with a non-Turkish background. Especially in urban areas, it functions as a peer group vernacular for children and adolescents.[85]

Selimiye mosque, Lünen.
Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque in Mannheim is the biggest mosque in Germany.

Religion

See also: Religion in Germany, Islam in Germany, and Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs

Turks are the predominant Muslim ethnic group in Germany. In fact, by the 1960s, the label Turk in Germany was synonymous with Muslim.[86] Today, Turks make up 63.2% of Germany’s Muslim population.[87] Thus, Islam in Germany has a largely Turkish character.[88] Religion has proven to be of particular importance for Turks in Germany for reasons more to do with ethnic reassurance rather than faith.[89] More than any other manifestation of their cultural values, Islam is regarded as the one feature that most strongly differentiates them in terms of identity from the majority of the German population.[90]

Integration

Naturalisation of Turkish citizens:[91][92][93]
Year Population Year Population
1982 580 1996 46,294
1983 853 1997 42,420
1984 1,053 1998 59,664
1985 1,310 1999 103,900
1986 1,492 2000 82,861
1987 1,184 2001 76,573
1988 1,243 2002 64,631
1989 1,713 2003 56,244
1990 2,034 2004 44,465
1991 3,529 2005 32,661
1992 7,377 2006 33,388
1993 12,915 2007 28,861
1994 19,590 2008 25,230
1995 31,578 2009 24,647
Demonstration of Germans and Turks at the site of the Solingen arson attack of 1993 which was one of the most severe instances of anti-foreigner violence in modern Germany.

Turkish immigrants from the onset were regarded as temporary settlers, hence the name guest workers. Consequently, Germany did not put into place structures that would facilitate the integration of the Turks in the new society, and neither did the Turks themselves work toward becoming integrated into the new society.

Furthermore, Turks are perceived as the 'most foreign' group in Germany.[94] This was in part because Turkish culture and religion was perceived as completely alien.[95]

Discrimination

See also: Neo-Nazism

For Turks in German society, patterns of discrimination maintain disadvantages of low economic and social status, whilst also restraining social advancement. Despite their long-term residency, Turks continue to face hostility, which has intensified since the mid 1970s. In Germany today, there is an undercurrent of xenophobia in public opinion and an open emphasis on xenophobia in right-wing and neo-Nazi organisations. The wave of xenophobic violence that saw offences treble between 1991 and 1993, claimed several Turkish lives and revealed how excluded and vulnerable non-Germans have remained in German society.[96]

The number of violent acts by right-wing extremists in Germany increased dramatically between 1990 and 1992.[97] On November 25, 1992, three Turkish residents were killed in a firebombing in Mölln (Western Germany).[98] The attack prompted even further perplexity since the victims were neither refugees nor lived in a hostel.[99] The same was true for the incident in a Westphalian town on May 29, 1993; where another arson attack took place in Solingen on a Turkish family that had resided in Germany for twenty-three years, five of whom were burnt to death.[100] Several neighbours heard someone shout Heil Hitler! before dousing the front porch and door with gasoline and setting the fire to the home.[101] However, most Germans condemned these attacks on foreigners and many marched in candlelight processions.[102]

Author Greg Nees, writing in 2000, stated that "Because Turks are both darker-skinned and Muslim, conservative Germans are largely against granting them citizenship."[103]

Segregation

In recent years, the Turkish minority has shown an increased tendency to segregation and radical views.[104] According to a representative 2012 survey, 72% of the Turks in Germany believe that Islam is the only true religion, 62% prefer social contacts only to fellow Turks, 46% wish that one day more Muslims live in Germany than Christians, 25% think atheists are inferior human beings, 18% believe Jews are inferior human beings, and 51% believe that homosexuality is a sickness.[105][106][107]

Citizenship

Further information: Nationality law

Under previous German law, children born to foreigners in Germany were not entitled to German citizenship by birth. This was modified in 1991.[108] In 2000, legislation was passed which conferred German citizenship on the German-born children of foreigners (born after 1990), and the naturalisation process was made easier, although dual citizenship is only permitted to citizens of the EU and Switzerland and any other national possessing it (including citizens of Turkey) by virtue of birth must choose between the ages of 18 and 23 which citizenship she or he wishes to retain, and renounce their other passport.[109] If one parent is German, a dual citizen is not required to give up the German citizenship if they keep the other citizenship. These strict limits on dual citizenship are criticised by liberal parties in Germany and institutions which promote German-Turkish relations.

Political behaviour

Turks have been a somewhat inert force in German politics because the first generation of Turks saw their stay in Germany as temporary. Moreover, few Turks have German citizenship and the attention of many Turks focuses on Turkish rather than German politics. However, in recent years, there has been increasing political participation by Turks in Germany, even those who are not citizens. Because of its supportive stand on immigration and naturalisation, most Turks favour the Social Democratic Party (SPD).[69] A survey following the 2005 Federal election revealed close to 90 percent voted for Gerhard Schröder's SPD/Green alliance. There are now many parliamentarians — both at state and federal level — with family origins in Turkey. In 2008 German-born second generation Turk Cem Özdemir became leader of the German Green Party.

See also: Turkish-German Cinema and Turkish hip hop

Timeline

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Time Events
1961 Bilateral Recruitment Agreement with Turkey . A Central Recruitment Office is established in Istanbul, and by the year’s end, 7,000 Turkish workers are living in Germany.
1962 Founding of the first Turkish social and political organization in Germany, the Union of Turkish Workers in the Cologne Region.
March 1962 Conflicting information about taxation rates of salaries leads Turkish miners in Essen and Hamburg to stage a strike. 26 workers are fired and deported.
June 15, 1963 The International Committee for Information and Social Action founds monthly newspaper Anadolu—a newspaper for Turks living in Germany.
1964 West German Radio begins Turkish language broadcasts under the name Köln Radyosu throughout the West German territory.
September 30, 1964 Renewal of the Guest worker agreement between the West German and Turkish Republics.
1965 WDR and ZDF begin to produce television series such as Neighbors, Our Homeland/Your Homeland, and later Babylon, geared towards the Turkish viewership.
1965 2,700 Turks live in West Berlin. Guest workers who have been employed in West Germany for five years may now receive an automatic five-year renewal of their work permit, regardless of whether they are citizens of a European country.
1967 Founding of the Turkish Union (Türk Federasyonu).
1971 Three daily Turkish newspapers: Akşam (Evening), Tercüman (The Interpreter), and Hürriyet ( Liberty ) print editions for migrant readership in Germany.
July 21, 1972 Turkish General Consul Metin Kusdaloglu greets Necati Güven, the 500,000th guest worker recruited at the Istanbul Recruitment Office, at the Munich Airport.
1973 Turks account for 23% of all foreigners living in Germany. A strike at the Cologne Ford factory leads to press debates on the "politicization of foreign workers".
July 30, 1973 Spiegel magazine’s cover headline reads "Ghettos in Germany - 1 Million Turks"
November 23, 1973 West Germany halts recruitment of Guest workers. Many Guest workers, fearing imminent anti-immigration laws, arrange for family members to join them in Germany, thus leading to an increase in immigrant populations, rather than the decrease sought by the West German government.
1975 The West German government decrees that no foreigners may move to a neighborhood or region where the percentage of foreigners exceeds 12% of the entire population.
December 8, 1981 West German law prohibits children over the age of 16 from joining their parents in Germany. Younger children who have at least one parent in the home country also may not immigrate to Germany.
May 26, 1982 Semra Ertan lights herself on fire in the Hamburg Marketplace to protest an increase in xenophobia.
November 28, 1983 A new law for the Promotion of Readiness to Return (Das Gesetz zur Förderung der Rückkehrbereitschaft) offers jobless Guest workers 10,500 DM to return to their country of origin. Only 13,000 individuals make use of this option.
November 9, 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall

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Time Events
1990 TRT, Turkey ’s state-run television and radio corporation, begins daily broadcasts to Germany.
1991 Emine Sevgi Özdamar, a Turkish writer/actress living in Berlin , wins the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. Great controversy over the state of “German” literature ensues.
November 22, 1992 An arson attack in Moelln (Schleswig-Holstein) kills three Turkish women.
May 29, 1993 An arson attack in the city of Solingen, kills five Turkish residents, all members of a family that had lived in Germany for 23 years. The attack leads to many pro-Turkish/anti-xenophobia demonstrations and to a public discussion about right-wing activities and skinheads in Germany.
June 30, 1993 The naturalization of foreigners is governed by the Nationality Act of 1913 and a number of special acts. In order to facilitate the integration of foreigners who were born in Germany, have grown up there or have lived there for at least 15 years, they have a legal entitlement to naturalization under sections 85ff. of the Aliens Act as amended on this day.
1993 Teams of the German Soccer League participate in the “Peacefully With One Another” project by wearing a slogan on their uniforms which reads 'My friend is a foreigner'.
1994 Leyla Onur and Cem Özdemir become the first elected Bundestag representatives of Turkish descent.
January 1998 According to the Ministry of the Interior, 9.37 million foreigners live in Germany, 2.11 million are Turks.
July 1998 CDU election platform seeks to reduce immigration by reducing government subsidized housing for foreigners, and rejecting the possibility of dual citizenship.
November 1998 Newly-appointed Commissioner for Foreigners Marieluise Beck (Greens) plans to develop an image for Germany as a 'country of immigration'. Berlin schools may legally provide Islamic education to pupils, after a court battle between the school district and the Islamic Federation in Berlin. Failed appeal to the Federal Constitutional Court to prohibit Bavaria from deporting a 14-year old legal offender born in Germany to Turkey.
2000 7.3 million legally resident foreigners in Germany; 2 million are Turkish citizens, 750,000 of whom were born in Germany.
2000 New citizenship law takes effect. Children born to foreigners in Germany automatically receive Germany citizenship, as long as one parent has been a legal resident for at least eight years. Children can also hold the nationality of their parents, but must decide to be citizens of one country before the age of 23.
2010 Chancellor Angela Merkel says that Germany being a multicultural nation has utterly failed.[110]
2011 About 4 million people of Turkish origin live in Germany.[51]

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See also: List of German Turks

See also

Notes

References

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  2. ^ According to the definition of the German Federal Office of Statistics (Statistisches Bundesamt: "Zu den Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund zählen alle nach 1949 auf das heutige Gebiet der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Zugewanderten, sowie alle in Deutschland geborenen Ausländer und alle in Deutschland als Deutsche Geborenen mit zumindest einem zugewanderten oder als Ausländer in Deutschland geborenen Elternteil" ("Counted as people with immigrational background are all people who, after 1949, immigrated to the present territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as everybody born as German citizen in Germany with at least one parent who immigrated to or was born as a foreigner in Germany.")
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Further reading

  • Green, Simon (2003), "The Legal Status of Turks in Germany", Immigrants and Minorities, 22 (2–3): 228–246, doi:10.1080/0261928042000244844. {{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |quotes= and |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Pécoud, Antoine (2003), "Self-Employment and Immigrants' Incorporation: The Case of Turks in Germany", Immigrants and Minorities, 22 (2–3): 247–261, doi:10.1080/0261928042000244853. {{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |quotes= and |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Şen, Faruk (2003), "The Historical Situation of Turkish Migrants in Germany", Immigrants and Minorities, 22 (2–3): 208–227, doi:10.1080/0261928042000244835. {{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |quotes= and |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Söhn, Janina (2006), "The Educational Attainment of Turkish Migrants in Germany", Turkish Studies, 7 (1): 101–124, doi:10.1080/14683840500520626. {{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |quotes= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Watzinger-Tharp, Johanna (2004), "Turkish-German language: an innovative style of communication and its implications for citizenship and identity", Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 24 (2): 285–294, doi:10.1080/1360200042000296663. {{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |quotes= and |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Yukleyen, Ahmet. Localizing Islam in Europe: Turkish Islamic Communities in Germany and the Netherlands (Syracuse University Press; 2012) 280 pages; explores diversity with a comparative study of five religious communities in the two countries.
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