Sixty years on, about 3 million people with Turkish roots live in Germany. Burak Yilmaz is part of the third generation. In 1963, his grandfather traveled by train from Istanbul to Munich. The final destination of his long journey was the Ruhr valley industrial region in Germany's northwest. He first worked as a miner, before getting a job in the railways. According to the terms of the recruitment agreement, the first guest workers were supposed to return to Turkey after a limited stay. But that changed when the German government decided to allow family members to join the workers and begin a new life in Germany.
The total population of the EU presently stands at 447.3 million inhabitants.Of this number, Boris Kharkovsky, from the Center for Ethnic and Political Science Studies says that this figure includes up to 15 million Euro Turks, spread all over the EU They are widely seen as an asset to the EU, hard working, industrious, and also a business savvy segment of the EU population.
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The German-Turkish Recruitment Agreement 60 years on | Germany | News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW | 05.10.2021
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