Tuesday, July 06, 2010

* Ethnic Turks Encounter ‘Kültürschock’ – Leaving Germany to Emigrate to Turkey « Count Us Out

"Ethnic Turks Encounter ‘Kültürschock’ – Leaving Germany to Emigrate to Turkey

More ethnic Turks are now moving out of Germany than in. As the German economy lags, a Western education helps professional Turkish Germans find work in a booming Muslim nation. But they aren’t always welcomed “home.”

The first time Ömer Küçükbay felt homesick for Germany, he was lying on a cot in a military barracks north of Antalya. He was 20 years old, it was 2 a.m., and an officer was bellowing at him that he should go keep watch. First, though, someone had to translate the officer’s command, since Küçükbay spoke no Turkish. He was fluent only in a Bavarian dialect of German."

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