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This was partly due to the family reunification rights that were introduced in 1974 which allowed Turkish workers to bring their families to Germany. [41] Consequently, between 1974 and 1988 the number of Turks in Germany nearly doubled, acquiring a balanced sex ratio and a much younger age profile than the German population. [42]
Germany suffered an acute labor shortage after World War II and, in 1961, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) officially invited Turkish workers to Germany to fill in this void, particularly to work in the factories that helped fuel Germany's economic miracle.
The Federation of Workers from Turkey in Germany (Turkish: Almanya Türkiyeli İşçiler Federasyonu or ATIF) The Federation of Workers and Youth from Turkey in Austria (Turkish: Avusturya Türkiyeli İşçi Gençlik Federasyonu or ATIGF) The Federation of Workers from Turkey in Holland (Turkish: Hollanda Türkiyeli İşçiler Federasyonu or HTIF)
Germany and Turkey agreed Thursday to gradually end the deployment of Turkish state-employed imams to Germany and to instead have imams trained in Germany to serve the country's large Turkish ...
A guest worker from Cuba, working in an East German factory (Chemiefaserkombinat "Wilhelm Pieck"), 1986. After the division of Germany into East and West in 1949, East Germany faced an acute labour shortage, mainly because of East Germans fleeing into the western zones occupied by the Allies; [35] in 1966 the GDR (German Democratic Republic) signed its first guest worker contract with Poland. [36]
It is a little late to start the debate about being an immigrant country now, when already seven million Turks live in Germany". [134] By 2013 Dr James Lacey and Professor Williamson Murray noted that the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, said that Germany's Leitkultur "needs to be accepted by Germany's seven million Turkish immigrants". [135]
Lowest of the Low or Lowest of the Low: the Turkish worker in West Germany is the English translation of German journalist Günter Wallraff’s book Ganz unten (“At the very bottom”), originally published in Germany in 1985. The book describes his undercover experiment as a Turkish migrant worker in West Germany over the span of two years. [1]
Guest Worker programs came about due to the high labor demand from industrialized economies of Western Europe and the excess labor supply from less industrialized countries. [3] Germany received mainly Turkish workers, which promised them more work opportunities that would lead to upward mobility. [3]