"German-Turkish Academic Retracts Jewish Comparison
Some 2.7 million people of Turkish origin live in Germany, more than in any other country in western Europe.
A prominent Turkish academic in Germany has apologised for a newspaper article in which he compared the lot of Turks in Europe today with Jews under the Nazis.
In Turkish newspaper Referans, Faruk Sen, director of the Essen-based Centre for Studies on Turkey (ZfT), referred to the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany and said since World War Two Turkish immigrants to Europe had become the "new Jews"."
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