'Turkified': Why I Can Never Be a Proper German
Thilo Rothacker/ DER SPIEGEL
Turks make up Germany's largest ethnic minority, and SPIEGEL reporter Özlem Gezer grew up in the port city of Hamburg as a part of this community. She describes herself as a "model immigrant," but explains how Germans have made her feel she could never be one of them.
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