Turks in Germany

The Turks in Germany are Germany's largest ethnic minority. Immigrants came from different parts of Turkey but especially from Anatolia, when Germany invited them to work as guest workers from 1961 to 73 because of labour shortages. Some of them have a Romanlar background. Most Turks in Germany are religious, and they cotinue old Turkish traditions such as the Sünnet (cirumcision) ceremony in great respect.^[1]^[2]

Turks in Europe, especially in Germany, suffer from strong anti-Turkish sentiment. One of the worst anti-Turkish crimes in Germany was the murder of a Turkish family in Solingen in 1993.^[3] Attacks on Turkish institutions, mosques, markets and people are increasing, and some have been fatal.^[4]

Turks In Germany Media

Once the Ottoman army retreated from their unsuccessful campaign at the Battle of Vienna in 1683, at least 500 Turkish prisoners were forcibly settled in Germany.
Fatima Kariman was a Turkish captive during the Battle of Buda (1686). She was captured by General Schöning and later sent to Saxony where she became the mistress of Augustus II the Strong.
Born to a Turkish father and a German mother, Karl Boy-Ed was the naval attaché to the German embassy in Washington during World War I.
Of Turkish origin through his mother Fatima, Frederick Augustus Rutowsky became the commander of the Saxon army during the Siege of Pirna.
Yenidze in Dresden / former cigarette factory building "Yenidze" in Dresden, Germany
Berlin's Turkish cemetery alongside the Şehitlik Mosque, a classic Ottoman style mosque.
Turkish employees in the Barfuß Bar in Hannover.
Born in Nuremberg, the actor Ozan Güven is the son of Bulgarian migrants of ethnic Turkish origin.
Born in Leverkusen, Cemile Giousouf is the daughter of ethnic Turkish migrants from Greece. Giousouf was the first German of Turkish Western Thracian origin to become a member of the German parliament. She was also the CDU's first ever elected Muslim MP in the Bundestag.