Let me tell you something about those "Turk people" you talk of.
In Europe, a major problem plagues many countries; integration of Turks, the isolation of Turks, the this the that, whereas in Britain, how comes we dont have these problems? How comes the Turkish and Turkish cypriots are fully fledged members of society? Where are the Turkish ghettos, the low Turkish literacy rates?
This must be really a bad joke. How many Turks live in Great Britain. I don't know whats the main groups of immigrants in Great Britain according to my impression from what I see there are living a lot of Pakistani and Indians. As I read there is a lot inner EU immigration of Poles. However how many million Turks do live in Great Britain to build up parallel societies?
Even within these few Turk ghettos with all the problems I seriously doubt that the crime rate is comparable to Glasgow.
Glücksritter; your blaming the wrong people. Its the xenephobia of Germans (and we know how badly racist they are) and her governments complete incompetence to integrate Germany's minorities simply because it doesnt have the legal backup to do so, is the reason why you have Ghettos filled to the brim with "Turk people".
This statement represents perfectly the attitude of the Turkish immigrants here.
It's the German states duty to solve their problem. If they are unwilling to learn German - the state will have to solve the problem.
The state has to provide jobs for them, the state has to ... the Germans has to ...
Now here comes the shocker.
Yes, here is the shocker for you the largest group of immigrants or former immigrants in Germany are Russians (oftentimes Russian with German roots), which problems exist with respect to integration? Nearly none! They learn German, they try to find jobs and they integrate.
There is a large Vietnamese community here in Berlin, which problems do occur? Nearly none!
There are lots of Polish people. There are summed up many EU-immigrants, there are Serbs, Indians, Ukrainians, Thai, Coreans, people from all over the world and the same problems do not occur. For some part you could argue because the minorities are simply too small in number, but as I wrote above the Russians don't cause the same kind of problems as some Turks do.
One of the cheapest excuses not to learn even the language of the country you live in I ever heard.
Its your own fault, not the Americans.
I did not claim that the status quo is the fault of the US, I simply wrote down as such
By the way although the huge problems of ghettos filled to some extend with Turkish people not willing to integrate has nearly nothing to do with Al Quaida terrorism, it is really funny to hear these words from you. It is the US which fights with all its powers and all pressures to force Germany and other European nations to accept Turkey as an EU member in the full knowledge of the consequence that those ghettos you are complaining about will emerge by hundred times more if the US get its political will.
Rather strange, that a person who accuses Germany to be responsible for 9/11 because of relatively moderate Turk ghettos (in fact you can as a German or other non Turk ethnic group walk through these districts without fear for your life - not to talk about the nonsense with the non existing relation to 9/11) whose own country tries to force the creation of new Turk ghettos in a larger scale.
The Balkans in total have a much larger Turkish presence and they are fantastically integrated, partly because of the cultural significance Turkey shares with the former Ottoman Balkans, partly because Southern European governments have done more to integrate them rather than dancing around the EU.
Pardon me, you want to declare the Balkan as an example of perfect integration? I take this as a good joke!
When Turkey had problems with her Polish in one of the Turkish islands after mass Polish immigration to Turkey during one of the World Wars, the Turkish government created a fully blown social programme to open Polish schools and centres to help the Polish adapt.
That worked out fine.
I read about impressive Turkish policy to integrate Kurds. Ripping of finger nails, forcing prisoners to walk over cullets first and salt afterwards, crushing the testicles and so on.
So apart from whining, what the hell does Merkel intend to do?
Instead of supressing the Turkkish minorities as Turkey does it with Armenians or Kurds?
There is everything provided concerning the infrastructure. There are German courses for free, there is extensive advertisement for that, there are schools, there are even special courses for immigrants (for free) to learn about Germany and the life here. There are enough examples of Turkish people here who were integrated.
What lacks is the willingness of some Turkish immigrants to use it. And there is the Turkish state which warns the Turkish immigrants to integrate them and instead stoking hate against the land the immigrants live in as Erdogan did in 2006 in Cologne.
Nevertheless these cases of a few Turkish districts are here dramatized with the intention to blame Germany for the terror on 9/11. Even the normal crime rate there cannot compete with many other metropoles or even some regions on the Balkan.
Mrs. Merkel will not ring at the doors of a few Kurds or Turks who are not willing to integrate, cause it's impossible.