Why are there SO MANY Turks in Germany? 

As a Turk, your video is surprisingly accurate. Unlike most people think, Turks went there not as refugees.

As a son of one those workers. My Father was a technician who worked in the rebuilding of the fallen infrastructure of Germany starting in for almost 15 years and had a different job after that, before he went back to Turkiye in 1985 taking us with him. As a person who was born in Germany and raised there i can say, i have experienced only one time a case which can be described as discriminatory when i was Germany. I've much more good memories rather than bad ones. As a Turkish citizen living in my homecountry for more 35 years now i often visit Germany for business reasons and everytime i went there my chilhood memories are coming back. I wish only good to German people, my german, italian, moroccan, pakistani and greek childhood friends yes we lost our connection but my prayers on your wellbeing never changed. Most of them are 50 years old now. Mein Kindergarten, meine Schule, Offenbach, Sachsenhausen und Frankfurt AM.

Turkey actaully asked Germany to send Turks back because they needed trained workers .

Jazakallah for educating us. Knowledge is power. I was telling a sister in Palestine about your videos. She was so distressed and i told her about Maldives video and how one man was victorious in liberation of Maldives. Thanks for the light and best sadqa is to spread the knowledge

germans never thanked for this, the first line of defense on the Berlin Wall were Turks, yes Turkish families were settled there, so soviets would shot Turks instead of germans.

Turks living in Germany got indeed germanized to a degree but they also turkified Germans and literally created Turkish towns inside Germany. This is the reason why some right wing Europeans don't like Turkish migrants as they don't become Europeans in few decades like other migrants, even after 60 years they are still Turkish, their children are Turkish. Only their grandchildren recently began becoming Germans especially if one of their parents is German. So they aren't ''ideal migrants'', Europeans might brag about their liberalism all day long but if you look at their actions they don't like liberalism at all and always favouring their own against foreign cultures...

Great video. As a grandson of those turkish guest workers who came in the late 60s to germany I was born and raised here in Germany. Raising up between two cultures is really very difficult and sometimes you have an identical crisis. But you can also use this as your advantages when you can speak both languages fluently and is an enrichment for your cultural understanding. But unfortunately we are anyway experience a lot of discrimination and racism here. And in Turkey like you said in the video they call us „Almanci“ and when we are in Turkey we also still some kind experience discrimination in another way. So we are sticked between two cultures and try to make the best out of it. But for me it is something special and I‘m proud of to be one of these „Almanci“ in the third generation. Greetings from South Germany. #Plaka55

My Grandfather worked in Istanbul for a weapon factory. At some point people came and said they were looking for a caster for metallic materials in Germany and poached him (Company near Hamburg - Aluminium Oxid, AOS). He then brought his wife and my father to Germany as a small child and worked in Germany's heavy industry until he retired. He later died of cancer. Due to all the hazardous substances and the lack of protection, it has collected toxic gases. Many of his buddies who were also Turks or Slavic died in a similar way. My grandparents' generation was called because the Germans themselves didn't want to get their hands dirty doing such work. In addition, the Germans thought that we would leave of our own accord at some point. But my grandfather stayed and got an apartment first. Later he was able to finance a house and my father still lives there to this day. And his grandson (me) now works as a technical manager in the IT department at Germany's largest training companies for crafting. But the question is. Even though we were born here, do we still feel comfortable? I have often thought about emigrating. Back to turkey or to another state. Germany and Turkey no longer have anything in common. Something like a German-Turkish friendship, if it existed, only existed during the war. But not in my reality.

Cem Karaca's "Es kamen Menschen an" song is nice one about the topic. "They have called labors but people came"

U forgot something. While the Turks went to Germany to support the economic miracle it was the idea that after the two years the Turks would go back to turkey as qualified workers to fuel the turkish economy because most of the men that went to Germany at first were unqualified farmers from rural turkey

MaşAllah I love your Ottoman and other Türk content brother. No Muslims speak about this today!!! Wish you would speak about the treacherous Arab Revolt though, which is what put the Muslims in the state they are in today.

a little night story .....Legend has it that a Turkish man from the Black Sea region, working in a chocolate factory, one day he ate the hazelnuts he brought from his homeland, which he had in his pocket while he was working, at one point he must have screwed an M4 bolt onto the machinery . Then he dropped nuts from his pocket onto the chocolate that had already been poured into the cast plates. The man was embarrassed by it and said nothing, later the boss came into the canteen and shouted. Who made this brilliant chocolate? The man said, I have that, meister, sorry. But the boss came and hugged him. etc etc. The factory called the chocolate Nussbeisser.

Im not from turkey but my father was also called as „Gastarbeiter“! One thing I have to say is this generation of my father who came here in the 60s 70s were treated as second class humans where they put 5-10 of them in a flat with 1-2 rooms and treated them as animals just go work shut up here money and hopefully u go back. And now they playing moral advocate on other country’s, the west and its double standards

my fathers side of the family were Gastarbeiters in the 70s and stayed in west germany until the early 90s when they moved to my current town near berlin in former east germany. My mother side had the oppurtunity to work in germany too in the 60s however they rejected it but as you see im in germany right now so those gastarbeiters also later on brought in more turks in the 80s and 90s and 2000s which is the reason my aunt, uncle and mom ended up here too.

The last part is simulair in the Netherlands. We had a labour shortage after WWII and some even argue we didn't automate enough or were to arrogant to do enough jobs. Whatever in the end many morrocans and Turkish labours stayed. Starting a steady Muslim population in the Modern Netherlands.

I am German and I thought public law at university. There are some facts you need to know. The turks are perfectly legally in our country and every single one has a residence permit from our authorities or citizenship! 2. The Turks faced heavily discrimination in our country. Though there has never been a decree or any LEGALLY based actions against them, there were governments like that of Helmut Kohl who wanted to force them out by discrimination and illegal actions. There children were systematically prevented to visit the higher education schools though they were qualified and had/ have the legal right to do. During military rule in Turkey German governments would ask turkish authorities to send people spying on the Turkish people in Germany. The reason is to prevent them from using the freedom of speech or practice their religion freely as they would face reprisal actions when visiting their relatives during holidays. When Mr Erdoğan came to power the German governments started to condemn the same institutions THEY asked the Turkish military to install in Germany! 3. Until recently ehe German governments usef asked the Turkish governments to send Turkish teachers to teach the Turkish students in Turkish language at school and the German governments would pay for that to prevent them from integrating into society. Again all those actions despite that every Turkish person is perfectly legally in Germany with legal residence permit!!

Im german and i can tell you that the turkish-german relationship is a hate-love relationship

For a long time now the Germans and Turks have been allies and that is good for both nations.

They were mainly there to work in the industry. Was a good deal for both sides.

If it weren't for the Turks, Germany wouldn't be the largest European economy.

in germany they call us turks and in turkiye almanci

But Germans now have the audacity to want to kick all Turks out (Far right political party). Absolutely ungrateful. I'm also a foreigner in Germany, but not Turkish.

OUR GRANDFATHERS

You are amazing ❤️🇹🇷💪🏼

And now some Germans are angry that there are so many turks here...

Turks are great

Excellent informative video. These are always omitted from school history lessons

Heres something you may find interesting. :) The name of my country has nothing to do with the interesting and delicious bird ''turkey'', well let me explain. :) Name of my country has always been Turkiye, that is Turk-iye, where the -iye suffix means ''land of/belonging to''... ...just like the Latin suffix -ia in such countries as Latv-ia, Roman-ia, Eston-ia, Austr-ia, Austral-ia etc etc. Another example; decades ago Czechoslovakia Republic changed it's name to Czech Republic and a few years ago changed that to Czechia (that is Czech-ia). Anyways, most likely the Latin -ia suffix was derived from the Turkish version -iye, as Turkish is much much older. Because in old times people of different languages could only pronounce it as their languages allowed them, we got various differences in spelling like Turchia (in Italian), Turquie (in French) and Turkey (in English) all trying to resemble the pronounciation of ''Turk-ia'' thus Turkiye. Mind you this was way BEFORE the animal we currently know as 'turkey'' was found by the europeans when they explored the north americas.... ...they came across the bird and thought it was a specie of the fowl/chicken they had been buying from the country of Turkiye at the time, so they named the bird ''Turkey Fowl'' meaning ''Turkish Chicken''..... ....just like how a dog breed is known as German Shepherd (because it's from Germany), Rhodesian Ridgeback (because it's from Rhodesia), American Bulldog, British Terrier, Greek Harehound etc etc. In time you don't get to call the Greek Harehound as simply as ''Greek''; or you don't call the British Terrier as ''British''; or the German Shepherd as ''German'', but in time the Turkish Fowl started to be called just ''turkey'', and has been going on for hundreds of years. Now in 2023, this is causing confusion, especially when we have people across the world unable to point to their OWN country on the atlas, this ''confusion over the naming'' needed to be corrected. So my country decided to rectify this confusion that has been going on for so long and corrected the name in other languages to Türkiye, which it always was, we basically didn't change the name of our country, we changed the mistake made in the English language. : ) So, there's some tid bit information for you to have a great day, if you read upto this point you have a great night too, ohh just have a wonderfull life. : ) Best wishes. ;)

Excellent INFORMATION BRO 👍

Mashallah brother. That is a question I have always wondered about. Never knew it went centuries back. Amazing work

Nice video

Ottoman's decline was mainly due to demographics. From 1700 on, their population started to decline, while the populations of Russia and European adversaries were rising rapidly. Ottoman stock was mainly nomadic, which was more resistant to pandemics, it was slow growing more slowly compared to agrarian settled societies. Introduction of potato into Europe was big game changer. They started looking into it mid 1800's, when their population was a small fraction of Russia, it was too late.

It is very ironic the treatment of turks in germany, ive always known this but not in this much detail so thank you

Thanx a lot

Thank you for the facts

I'm also a German turk

Very interesting thank you I didn't know that. I just wish you would use another world map than mercator projection

I am Turkish and I was born I Germany but my family moved to USA when I was 5. My uncle was a politician in Germany and he passed away on February 2023. His name was Ismail Tipi.

Nice video 👍🏻😊

It can be a possibility, that the native german people will do the same thing what they did to Jews in Germany to Turks in Germany, if Turks will not be civilized, the germans expelled the Ottoman Turks from Austria in the past.

ottoman & attaturk the best 🇲🇾🇹🇷🖤

The Turks built Germany and helped Germany get back on its feet. Thanks to Turkey

Ma Shaa Allah..your videos are eye opening and moral boosting. My knowledge has increased to next level by watching your informative videos. However my inquisitive mind has two queries firstly what's your origin and educational background secondly which references you use for the information you convey to us. I know there might be multiple references but in general if you could tell us that would be great!!!!! Thanks

Great great video

Great video but I wish it was not as fast paced towards the end and with more details; for example that millionth Beetle was produced in 1955; clearly before the wave of Turkish “gastarbeiter”

That's all good but what really built Germany after the war was US investment

Thanks a lot for such quality content!

The first 6 minutes of the video was just about the history you only spent two minutes talking about how Turks helped Germany grow piece of advise if you make a video don’t make the last minute to two of the said video of the said topic if the topic doesn’t cover the entire or most of the video than just make the video shorter this video could have been 2 minutes instead of 8 minutes but you spent most of the time talking about history than talking about the main topic this wasn’t me being disrespectful or anything just giving my view on the video .

Germany didn't actually want Turks immigrating to their country because they were worried about the cultural differences between Germany and Turkey which was too great. Germany had plenty of people from the poorer areas of West Germany who could fill the demand for manpower in it's indutries. The USA, however, wanted to maintain a good relationship with Turkey and so pressured Germany into accepting Turkish guest workers.

How do you make these map animations , one vedio for this !

I never faced discrimination in turkey also the younger generation in germany also isnt racist its easy to become a german as a turk if you ask me the rhibgs they say in this video is from my pespective not true germans are awesome

You summed it up perfect. Selam from a Turkish brother in Germany.

Remarkable

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And Germans so ungrateful against Turks. lol.

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6:40 Actually you are wrong. It is little known that the initiative for the German-Turkish recruitment agreement came from Turkey. Turkey had a significant interest in sending part of its rapidly growing population abroad as temporary guest workers. During the Cold War, Turkey was considered an important NATO member on the southeastern flank of what was then the Soviet Union. Turkey's economic and political stability was in the interests of NATO countries and other Western countries.

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At the siege of Vienna in 1683 the Turks had completely surrounded Vienna, it was there for the taking but for a brave Polish King named Sobieski who along with his Polish hussar cavalry and German support completely routed the 140, 000 Turkish army and sent them fleeing back to Turkey. Vienna is saved, but we are still waiting for the Vienna council who commissioned the Sobieski monument to accept it from the Polish people.

Turkey should ask germany to send them back we need them in Turkey and also racisim in eu is dangerous in a bad case it would be hard to deport them and that will lead unwanted situations

They were also intened to leave after, yet there they stay, unintegrated...

Same reason there are so many Pakistanis/Bengalis/Caribeans/Yemenis in Britain. After the population collapse from WW2, the British called on workers from the colonies to come and man the factories. I never knew that Britain was just copying West Germany.

Great if you like Turkey also, me too. For that We are lucky to have a large Turkish community here in Germany. Turkish-Germans or Turkish people has influenced a lot Germany for over 60 years. Döner Kebab or the many successful people with Turkish roots, BionTech founders Ugur Sahin or Özlem Türeci or football players like Özil, Gündogan, Emre Can etc. In the future also Deniz Undav, then successful show business people (more popular in German-speaking areas, not really in the US), like Singer Ayliva, ELIF or Monrose Bahar Kizil or presenters like Nazan Eckes, Funda Vanroy or politicians like Cem Özdemir etc. Even Germanrap like Mero, Pashanim, Haftbefehl, Summer Cem etc. Don’t forget Fatih Akin or the Series: Turkish for Beginners etc. -

While historically interesting the last part of the video is unfortunately not based on history but on what was told to the guest workers and Germans as propaganda. 1. The German economic miracle is not the result of the workforce-structure, it's the result of targeting population centers instead of factories in the WWII strategic bombing campaign, Germany never entered full war-production due to resource shortages, this created a head-start on civilian production after the war as factories did not have to be converted back. Bombed-out cities tend to be confused with bombed out production capability. 2. Turkish workers had little to do with this initial "miracle", they only entered the picture in 1961, 16 years after the war ended, the original guest-workers were Italians in 1955, this was however primarily to reduce the Italian inflation created by a trade deficit. Aim was to stabilize inner-European Trade by creating a flow of German currency to Italy, which imported German goods due to the mentioned "miracle". 3. Turkey, seeing the Italian guest-worker program (as well as spain and greece in 1960) was the country to ask Germany for a similar deal. Germany refused this Turkish request. It was not Germany requesting Turkish workers, it was Turkey requesting Germany to take workers. 4. Eventually the US pressured Germany to agree to the Turkish request, this was not due to economical but for strategic reasons (NATO). The guest-worker agreement originally intended for temporary work visas only for those from the geographically European part or Turkey, however as the workers were trained by companies preferring to keep them instead of having to re-train this was extended indefinitely (1964 onward), the limit on the parts of turkey the workers were to come from was never fully enforced.

I thought the Turks went to Germany because they were poor, they needed money and there weren’t many jobs in their home country. This is absolutely surprising and a big a revelation to me.

Good knowledge

This was a bad move from Turkish side, they lost urban workers, their production of agriculture plummeted. Turkey had to urbanize faster, which resulted internal immigration and resulted slums. This created class division in cities and fueled populist conservative politicians. Like Ozal, Demirel and later Erdogan.

Almancı has not to mean germanized, it means gurbetçi where spesified!

Hahahaha the video starts RIGHT of the bat with a lie. The reason germany accepted the turks was because it was under control by the US. There was no need for Turkish workers as there were plenty of unemployed already. The first guest workers were recruited from European nations. However, Turkey pressured West Germany to admit its citizens as guest workers.[5] Theodor Blank, Secretary of State for Employment, opposed such agreements. He held the opinion that the cultural gap between Germany and Turkey would be too large and also held the opinion that Germany didn't need any more laborers because there were enough unemployed people living in the poorer regions of Germany who could fill these vacancies. The United States, however, put some political pressure on Germany, wanting to stabilize and create goodwill from a potential ally. West Germany and Turkey reached an agreement in 1961.[15]

Salamu alaikum Akhi, as a origin German Muslim i can say, thats not correct what you said about the German Economy Wonder. First, the German economic miracle had begun in the early 1950s, 10 years before the great immigration began. Secondly, about 650 thousand Turkish men came to Germany between 1960 and 1970 and the population of Germany at that time was already just under 80 million people. Migrant workers were a minority in every profession, so the impact on the economy as a whole cannot have been so great. This is a widespread myth that guest workers built Germany and were responsible for the economic miracle, but unfortunately it does not correspond to the facts.

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Wrong! They was 2 million turks, 1,2 million Yugoslavs , million italians and greeks and a lot of others also, they all togheter did that ! Better inform yourself before doing such Videos

Can you share an episode on "Palestine" place origins and if any time it was called by other name(s) etc. How it emerged etc.?

The best Turkish kebabs are found in Germany I kid you not 😂

However, it would be appropriate to add one thing: I think 70 percent of the people you call Turks in Germany and other European countries are Kurds. Because in Turkey, mostly people go to Europe from the southeastern region.

Germans accomplishments doesn't directly depend on somebody. They have basically more cultural capital than any other nation. We were effective species for the food which Germany has been started cooking already. They have been sparking last 300 years in different manners: philosophy(Kant, Schopenhauer, Jung...), literature(Geothe...), engineering(no need to tell), discipline and hard working(protestant ethic)

Especially the lady at the end of the video perfectly sums up the identity crisis of the current generation of Turks.

Could you add links to where you get your information from so I could read and learn more. jazakallah khair

Are you from Toronto Canada?

Well, after watching your video, I have decided to correct some serious mistakes in your knowledge. I will not get into details. Although it would be good to show your sources when you are doing a video like this. First, it's not Turks or Turkey; it's Ottoman. The second thing to fix is the assassination plan. It seems to me that you totally came up with it by yourself. Grenades.. 2-3 assassins.. nope, it was not like that. Yes, you are correct at some point, but it has nothing to do with that trip. There was only one guy. There were no SEALs in that era. The third thing is the pictures you used. I have no idea who they are. Sorry. I have a very clear picture of the guy who used the revolver. The second picture you used looks similar, but it's not him. The first picture you used, I dont know. The fourth thing is that WWI has nothing to do with why there are many Turks in Germany (which is our main topic). Ottoman was with Germany in WW1 just because Ottoman wanted to get back the lands they lost and tried to regain its power. Also, the Ottomans wanted to catch up with military technology. Before the Germans, it was France. That's why many Ottoman officers could speak both German and French like their mother tongue. Now, the reason why there are many Turks in Germany is the WW2. As I said before, I will not get into details, but basically, after the war, there was no manpower left in Europe. As you may know, Turkey joined the war in the last six months of the war. So obviously, Turkey didn't lose that much manpower. In 50s and 60s Germany openly announced that they needed manpower to do things. Well.. even you can understand, the first country that comes to mind is, yes, Turkey. So many countries send people to Germany to start a new life.. Turkey accepted more than other countries. And many Turks stayed in Germany.. and then mixed marriages and blah blah.. so.. thats your short answer.

most of them are kurdish turkish citizens

As someone with Turkish nagionality and working in München as a software engineer, this video ia truly accurate. Also, little note that German language is being thaught in high school as a compulsoru course. Most Turkish dudes like me simply decide to live and work in Germany since it has well established economy, and is the center of Europe.

Sparta fought on the side of Persia. Do a vid on that.

afrer ww2, germany tried italian people first for lack of workforce but it was not efficent enough for them. then germany has chosen turkish workers beside of eastern europeans. nowadays lots of white collar workers are also trying to immigrate to germany to live a better life.

Germany built all that with Turkish workers. Why Turkey couldn’t do the same with its own people?

Very informative video brother, may Allah bless you.

7:27 Why did you show a block in East Berlin? The DDR didn’t allow Turkish immigrants

Nothing in this video is true. They build Germany? Why didn't they build Turkey in first place?

The legal basis for labor migration was laid with the Germany-Turkey Labor Force Agreement signed in Bonn, the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany, on 30 October 1961. Starting from 1961, worker selection procedures started through the German Liaison Office in Tophane, Istanbul. In those years, no one had any thoughts of leaving Germany or other European countries. Turks are not refugees in Germany like miserable Arabs, Afghan, Pakistani, Syrian etc. So many Turks in Germany worked for very difficult and dirty jobs. Any lazy Arabs dont work in this works. Right now so many Turks are bosses in Germany and graduaded so many German Universities. And now Germany is a very glad calling Turks to Germany. And still their first choice is the Turks.

There are many lies in this video! Türkey asked frequently to send their poor people to Germany as guest workers in 1960s. Germany was already rebuilt at that time and had a strong Economy!! Mostly with the (Financial) help from the USA.

Thanks to the Turks, you can buy delicious, cheap food in Germany or some of Europe 's county.

The Turks are GERMANS now coz their Ancestors rebuilt Germany from rubles!!!!!

half of the people that left Turkey to go to Germany are not turks alot of them are kurds and arabs and Assyrians and arminans too . maybe half of them are turks .

Waiting for a video supporting Muslims and specifically Gaza

Omar turns one feather into five chickens.

Because they dont like working and the country give them money...everybody know

Germans dragged the Ottoman Empire to war on their side by raising an Ottoman flag to Breslau and Göben ships then going ahead and bombarding Sevastopol. Upon which Russia declared on the Ottomans.

Their need more workers at that time. Since Turkish also their allies in their ww1, maybe it's more easier

But we also asked them to leave

Many Germans have got a turkish father, but they do not know this!😂