Sunday, October 30, 2011

Meet Mustafa, one of Germany’s first Turkish ‘guest workers’

Meet Mustafa, one of Germany’s first Turkish ‘guest workers’

Sunday, 30 October 2011

By AFP
STUTTGART

Half a century ago, Mustafa Akci arrived here as one of the very first Turkish Gastarbeiter, or “guest workers,” following the signing of an agreement that was to change the face of Germany.

Today, some three million Turks or Germans of Turkish origin are settled in this 80-million-strong country, representing its largest ethnic minority.

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