Category: Germany

With an estimated number of at least 2.1 million Turks in Germany, they form the largest ethnic minority. The vast majority are found in what used to be West Germany. Berlin, Frankfurt,Hamburg, Rhine-Ruhr (Cologne, Duisburg and Dortmund) have large Turkish communities. The state with the largest Turkish population is North Rhine-Westphalia.

  • Education of Turkish children in Germany overshadows Angela Merkel visit

    Education of Turkish children in Germany overshadows Angela Merkel visit

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel has arrived in Turkey for an official visit overshadowed by disagreements over Ankara’s plans to join the EU.

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    Mrs Merkel opposes full EU membership for Turkey, which began negotiations to become a member in 2005.

    There are also disagreements over the education of Turkish children in Germany in the Turkish language.

    Germany is Turkey’s biggest trading partner, and nearly three million Turks live in Germany.

    Turkey’s sometimes fraught relationship with the European Union won’t be helped by this visit.

    After months of avoiding the subject, Chancellor Merkel has chosen this moment to revive her idea of offering Turkey what she calls a privileged partnership with the EU, rather than full membership.

    Mrs Merkel has stressed that she does see integration as possible in up to 28 of the 35 so-called chapters of EU law with which Turkey has to comply before it can become a full member of the union.

    But her proposal has been firmly rejected by the Turkish government as a breach of the terms agreed when membership negotiations began five years ago.

    ‘Insulted’

    “Such a thing as privileged partnership does not exist,” said Egemen Bagis, Turkey’s minister for European affairs.

    “So we do not take that option seriously because there is no legal foundation of it. At times I feel insulted for being offered something which does not exist.”

    The chancellor does have plenty of other topics to discuss here, including Iran’s nuclear programme.

    Turkey has recently strengthened its relations with Iran and opposes the tougher sanctions threatened by Western governments.

    But their differences over EU membership will cast a shadow over any common ground they do find during this visit.

    BBC

  • The Nazi-Armenian Genocide of Jews 1935-1945

    The Nazi-Armenian Genocide of Jews 1935-1945

    “Armenian Nazi General Dro commanded the 20,000
    strong Armenian-Nazi 812th Battalion during World War II”

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    Samuel A. Weems – There was a funeral a few weeks ago in Vienna, Austria. Two small black urns were buried containing the brains and a few remains of 4-year old Annemarie Danner and 18-month old Gerhard Zeketner. During World War II these were two of the more than 600 children the Nazis proclaimed “worthless lives.” These children were taken to Vienna’s Am Stein Hospital to be murdered and their bodies used for medical research.

    Between 1935 and 1945, in the name of medical science and research, the Nazis murdered more than 75,000 individuals, including 5,000 children across Europe, in their quest to create a racial/ethnic pure state. These acts of terror and cruelty were in addition to what the Nazis did at their many death camps were Jews were exterminated.

    The term “genocide” was invented and created in 1944 to describe all the many different acts of murder the Nazis used in their attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish race. Annemarie Danner and Gerhard Zeketner are but two of the individual lives the Nazis stamped out.

    Armenians today are attempting to “steal” the term genocide by making the fake claim that the Turks massacred 1.5 million of their people in 1915. The undisputed hard evidence is that this tall tale was nothing more than the figment of the imagination of a high priest of the one and only state Armenian church. The priest’s motive for making up and telling this horrible lie was his attempt to get a foreign government to come and help the Armenians obtain someone else’s homes and land for free. This great lie is the foundation upon which the Armenian government has established its multi billion dollar fake “genocide industry.” The Armenians have been operating on this great lie since 1918. Armenia operates their “genocide industry” with great success in today’s world even if they do operate on fraud and deceit.

    The truth is the Ottoman Turks did only one thing which had good cause for doing so, but gave the Armenians a chance to claim that there was a massacre going on. That single act was to ask the Armenian Church to help them stop their congregations’ nightly terrorist acts against the Ottoman military supply lines. The Russians had invaded the Ottoman Empire and the Armenians in the eastern part of the country had joined the Russians. The Armenian Church refused to help the Ottoman government and state officials responded by saying they would themselves have to remove all Armenians from behind their army lines.

    Thereafter, the Ottoman government did remove all the Armenians who were doing such harm to their military forces. The United States of America has done exactly

    the same thing during World War II. Several Americans are known to have seen Armenians being alive and leaving the combat zone even though the Armenian church claims they were all murdered.

    At no time did the Ottoman Turks exterminate children for medical research as the Nazis did between 1935–1945. What makes such acts of Nazi terrorism worse is the fact they did not act alone in their attempts to create an ethnic/racial pure state. Consider the fact that more than 100,000 Armenians volunteered for Nazi military service and took an active part in the Nazi ethnic/racial cleansing campaigns. For ten long years Armenians took part in exterminating not only Jews but also children such as Annemarie Danner and Gerhard Zeketner.

    During World War II Armenians learned well the art of racial/ethnic cleansing from their Nazi partners in crime. Today. Armenia has ethnically/racially cleansed their tiny state so successfully that 94.8% of their population is now ethnically pure Armenian. The Armenians have ethnically/racially cleansed their tiny state of what they consider their “undesirables” much like they helped the Nazis do between 1935/1945. Jews, Muslims, and Christians of other faiths other than the state owned and approved church have either been murdered or forced out of Armenia.

    Consider the fact of how Armenia today continues to honor the Nazis. The Armenian Nazi General Dro commanded the 20,000 strong Armenian-Nazi 812th Battalion during World War II. After the war, even though serving the Nazis, Armenian Dro talked his way into the United States of America where he remained until his death. Just last year Armenians dug him up and took his body back to Armenia where he was reburied with full military and state honors. The Armenian American colony raised several hundred thousand dollars to help fund a youth leadership institute to honor this Armenian Nazi general. Just what specific leadership is Armenian children being taught today in the General Dro leadership institute–hate, ethnic purity of the Armenian race, racial superiority?

    And to think the Armenians, still running their “genocide industry” scam are building their very own genocide memorial two blocks from the American White House. There are less than one million Armenians even in the United States. Why should they spend $75 million dollars on a false claim to something that is disputed that happened 6000 miles away more than 85 years ago. The answer is simple. The Armenian American colony will use this self-invented, fake memorial to deceive and fleece even more American taxpayer dollars for their less than 200 year old homeland the Russians gave them after taking these lands from the Muslim owners. This Armenian genocide memorial will become one of the greatest and largest frauds ever attempted in the history of the entire world. Can anyone believe that Armenians, who took a very active role in the Jewish genocide of World War II, can build such a fake memorial to themselves today for the sole purpose of deceiving and fleecing American Christian taxpayers out of more and more foreign aid money that over the past ten years alone amounts to almost $1.5 billion dollars!

    It is fair to ask since the Armenians were ten year partners in crime with the Nazis during the World War II years–will they have a memorial to Annemarie and Gerhard and all the other poor souls the Armenians helped the Nazis murder and exterminate?

    Samuel A. Weems is a retired U.S. judge from Arkansas and is the author of ARMENIA: Secrets of A ‘Christian’ Terrorist State, The Armenian Great Deception Series – Volume 1, St. John Press. […]

    The Turkish Times


  • Broke Greece should sell islands: Merkel allies

    Broke Greece should sell islands: Merkel allies

    AFP – Bankruptcy-threatened Greece should sell some of its uninhabited islands to raise cash, two allies of Chancellor Angela Merkel were quoted as saying Thursday.

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    “The Greek state must sell stakes in companies and also assets such as, for example, unpopulated islands,” Frank Schaeffler, a member of parliament for the pro-business Free Democrats, Merkel’s coalition partner, told the Bild daily.

    A member of Merkel’s own conservative CDU party, Marco Wanderwitz, said Athens should provide collateral for any money it receives from the European Union to help it out of its debt crisis.

    “In this case, certain Greek islands also come into question,” added Wanderwitz.

    “We give you cash, you give us Corfu,” the Bild commented.

    Greece has around 6,000 islands off its coast, of which only 227 are inhabited, according to the country’s National Tourism Office website.

    The cash-strapped country Wednesday launched a fresh round of draconian austerity measures in a bid to rein in a ballooning budget deficit that is more than four times above EU limits.

    The Socialist government increased sales, tobacco and alcohol taxes and cut public sector holiday allowances to save 4.8 billion euros (6.5 billion dollars), equal to about two percent of gross domestic product (GDP).

    Pensions in the public and private sector were also frozen.

    Merkel is set to hold talks with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Friday to discuss the situation in Greece.

    France 24

  • EU Report Says That Racism On the Rise in Germany

    EU Report Says That Racism On the Rise in Germany

    Wednesday, 29 August 2007

    By Leyla SURMELI (JTW)

    Frech2The European Union (EU) report says that racism is on the rise in Germany. The EU report on racism in Europe severely critised Germany. The criticism for Germany comes on several fronts, including violent crimes and discrimination against foreigners in the job and housing markets.

    Racism has recently become a hot issue in Germany after an apparently xenophobic attack on eight Indians (more…) in the eastern German town of M+-geln. The Germany Turks, biggest minorty group in the country, have also confronted serious racist attacks everyday.

    The EU report says that violent racism in Germany appears to be on the increase. According to the report the incidents of racist violence and crime in Germany increased by 14 percent between 2005 and 2006, going up from 15,914 incidents in 2005 to 18,142 in 2006.

    The “Report on Racism and Xenophobia in the Member States of the EU” also shows that crime with an extremist right-wing motive also in increase, going up from 15,361 incidents in 2005 to 17,597 incidents in 2006, a 14.6 percent increase.

    The incidence of anti-Semitic crime in Germany however remained fairly constant, with 1,662 incidents in 2006 compared to 1,682 in 2005.

    The “Report on Racism and Xenophobia in the Member States of the EU” was published Tuesday by the Vienna-based European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) — an agency which was created on Mar. 1, 2007 to replace the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia.

    Turkish Weekly

  • Turkish community warns of continued racism in Germany

    Turkish community warns of continued racism in Germany

    Sunday, 1 June 2008
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    (IRNA) – Germany’s Turkish community warned of continued racism in the country, while marking the 15th anniversary of an anti-foreigner arson attack in the western city of Solingen which killed five Turkish women and girls, the press reported Thursday.

    There is still a high degree of xenophobia in Germany society which has to be combated through better education, stressed the Turkish community of Germany (TGD) and the Foundation of Turkish Studies (ZfT) in a statement.

    “Aggressive behaviour and prejudices are already being taught at the age of a child. Therefore, one must act pedagogically at an early stage,” ZfT director,Faruk Sen was quoted saying.

    There are 7.5 million foreigners living in Germany of which 2.5 million are Turks.

    A recent confidential government report revealed widespread xenophobia among millions of teenagers in Germany.

    Almost every German youth said there are too many foreigners living in Germany.

    Nearly every 9th grader has Islamophobic tendencies while every 13 teenager admits to having committed a right-wing motivated criminal act.

    Germany has been the scene of a series of vicious neo-Nazi attacks in recent months, especially against foreigners.

    German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has repeatedly warned of a growing far-right problem in his country, branding it a “steadily growing danger.”

    Schaeuble had voiced concern that the number of far-right crimes between 2005 and 2006 rose from 15,000 to 18,000 offenses, indicating a 9.3 percent increase.

    Meanwhile, the number of anti-foreigner attacks hovered at 511 in 2006, showing a 37 percent rise from the previous year.

    Political observers link the dramatic rise in the number of far-right crimes to the recent success of neo-Nazi parties in key regional elections in several east German states.

    Young neo-Nazis feel also more and more emboldened to commit hate crimes, knowing that police won’t charge them with an offense.

    Most of the suspects implicated in far-right crimes are juveniles.

    Hate crime experts and sociologists have repeatedly stressed that Germany’s political leadership lacked a clear and effective strategy to fight neo-Nazi and racist crimes.

    1 June 2008

    Turkish Weekly

  • Conference on human rights and Khojaly massacre

    Conference on human rights and Khojaly massacre

    Baku – APA. Three-day conference entitled “The truth is the way leading to reconciliation” on the theme “Forgotten victims – Jews and Azerbaijanis in the Caucasus” ended in Berlin, Media Department of the Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation told APA. The main organizer of the event, Coordinator of “Justice for Khojaly” international campaign in Germany, executive director of the Coordination Center of the Azerbaijanis in Germany Samir Patzer-Ismailova said the conference was devoted to the Khojaly massacre and the genocide committed by the Armenian dashnaks against Azerbaijanis in Guba in 1918. The event was held at Germany-Azerbaijan Relations Development Center (GeFDAB) with the participation of more than100 guests.

    Member of European Parliament Eduard Lintner sharply condemned the aggressive policy carried on against Azerbaijan and urged Europe to be more active in the solution of Nagorno Karabakh conflict.
    Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Germany Parviz Shahbazov provided information about the history of Day of International Human Rights Day, and the crimes committed by Armenians in Azerbaijan throughout the history.

    Chairperson of EuraKaukAsia Society, professor of the Bonn and Berlin universities Dr. Eva Maria Auch made a report entitled “Azerbaijani Jews – Forgotten Community” bringing historic facts about historic settlement of the Jews in Azerbaijan and their peaceful life as an ethnic minority.

    “Marches of Death”, the book written by late professor Rovshan Mustafayev was presented at the event. Director of the Human Rights Institute of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Ayten Mustafayeva presented the German version of the book.

    KAD Executive Director Samira Patzer-Ismayilova called on the international community to recognize the Khojaly genocide legally and politically and noted that it is inevitable to deliver realities of Khojaly to the world community.

    Fariz Gasimli presented the international information campaign “Justice for Khojaly” carried out on the initiative of the Chief Coordinator of the Islamic Conference Youth Forum Leila Aliyeva.

    The international information and agitation campaign “Justice for Khojaly” was declared on May 8, 2008 by the Chief Coordinator of the Islamic Conference Youth Organization for Dialogue and Cooperation.