News Highlights: The US has embraced immigrants Tech Entrepreneurs – now it’s Europe’s turn The world is on the brink of a counterattack against COVID thanks to several vaccines currently demanding regulatory approval and a rapid rollout. For entrepreneurs and the tech industry, this is a time when their value to society is demonstrated: business and technology are leading us (along with medicine) out of the pandemic. But the Turkish community in Germany, and the minorities in Europe in general, are celebrating for a different reason. Turkish Germans are an often marginalized group, similar to other minorities around the world. Like any community, they are proud of their success stories, such as Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci, the husband-and-wife co-founders of BioNTech, the company behind the first vaccine to report a successful phase three study based on cutting edge mRNA. technology.