ILuvEire wrote:sjheiss wrote:Hmm, seems to be quite a few Turkish working at T-Mobile in Germany.
Why are there so many Turks in Germany? I'd expect to see more in Italy, but I've been to both Berlin (I saw tons of Turks there) and Rome (almost no Turks).
Even though I'm not German (
Heaven forbids ) I've a lot of German-Turkish friends and there are plenty of reasons behind the high presence of Turks in Germany (actually Berlin's often referred to as Turkey's 2nd city because it has so many Turkish citizens).
First and foremost a lot of Turks came to Germany as guest workers, Germany needed them during the 60's, and thus they were allowed to bring their families over to Germany. After a while the Germans wanted the Turks to go back to Turkey but they stayed, despite a couple of different attempts to make them go back.
First, the German government offered money to those that decided to go back, many went back, but then returned, often with their families. Secondly Germany stated that no German citizen would be able to have a dual citizenship, and thought this would make many Turks leave Germany. Instead they stayed and didn't find it all too hard to give up their Turkish citizenships.
Why the Turks have chosen Germany as the main land to emigrate to no one knows, just as no one can know why Italy have a lot of Albanian immigrants, Sweden a lot of Somalians and Iraqi citizens...