"Germany adjusts to cope with a retiring Turkish population
BERLIN: Mustafa Makinist's father arrived in Germany from Turkey in 1973 with plans to work for five years. He stayed on, working as a machine repairman at Siemens for 25 years.
Despite having a house in Turkey, the 68-year-old retiree still spends half the year in Berlin. Makinist, 40, is planning to rent an apartment there for when his father and mother are too old to travel between their adopted and home countries. But he dismissed a common belief that Turkish families care for their elderly relatives in large households consisting of several generations."
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