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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Berlin and Ankara clash over integration - Middle East Times

"Berlin and Ankara clash over integration

BERLIN, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Berlin and Ankara are at odds over the integration of ethnic Turks into the German society.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Germany last week and managed to shock Germany's conservatives when he warned some 20,000 Turkish expatriates in a speech in Cologne not to lose their culture and condemned assimilation as "a crime against humanity.""

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