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09/02/2021 Рby Timur Tin̤
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Islam is part of Germany: Muslims break their fast at the Turkish-Islamic DITIB mosque in Göttingen in 2012.
Since Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president, rose to power, he has actively pursued a policy of encouraging Turks living in Germany to identify with him and with Turkish values. This attitude fractures what is already a very heterogeneous community even more.
The first Turks came to Germany as labour migrants almost 60 years ago. They were called “Gastarbeiter” – guest workers – because they were supposed to stay in the country for only a limited time. But many settled in Germany permanently, had children and grandchildren here. Today, around 3 million people with Turkish roots live in Germany, and roughly half of them have the German citizenship. Turkish immigrants – and Islam, accordingly – are now part of German society. Nonetheless, many of the fir ....

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