Tag: German Turks
Who Is Germany’s First Muslim Minister, Cem Özdemir?
On December 8 2021, Germany swore in a new chancellor, Olaf Scholz of the Social Democrats (SPD), ending the 16-year reign of...
Upcoming Turkish elections reverberate in Germany
Turkey will hold parliamentary and presidential elections on June 24 – roughly one and a half years ahead of schedule. Turkish citizens living abroad...
Trying to become German: A new book chronicles a man’s lost...
Germany is, as is well known, home to a large community with Turkish roots, numbering roughly 3 million. Many of them have lived in...
Old and new forms of racism in Germany: Ethnic hatred and...
Are the rising levels of Islamophobic hate crimes in Germany indicative of a new form of racism? Yes, says Yasemin Shooman, researcher at the...
