"Berlin immigrants see warning signs from Paris violence
By Hugh Williamson in Berlin
Published: November 8 2005 02:00 | Last updated: November 8 2005 02:00
Mustafa Berksun, an elderly Kurdish immigrant living in Berlin, is sure the riots in France this month will not be repeated in his adopted homeland - at least not in the near future.
'Conditions in Berlin are different,' he says, sipping a glass of Turkish tea.
'But if the Turkish and German communities drift further apart, then things could really explode,' he adds, throwing his hands in the air as if a bomb were going off. His friends, gathered in Komkar, a threadbare Kurdish community centre in the back streets of Kreuzberg, Berlin's cultural and racial melting pot, are of a similar opinion."
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