People and Politics # Turks in Germany – Poorly Integrated # 06.02.2009

In a recent study, researchers found that people with Turkish roots living in Germany are often poorly integrated into German society, even though their families may have lived here for generations. Five decades after the first Turkish 'guests workers' arrived in Germany, it seems that Turks still tend to keep to themselves, speak German badly and underperform in schools. Nowhere is the problem more acute than in Saarland, a mining region in western Germany.