Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many West Berliners, their Greek and Turkish Gastarbeiter are "simpletons," "primitives" and "Dreckschweine" (filthy pigs). Italian and Spanish foreign workers seem to rate somewhat better treatment, probably because their lifestyles more closely resemble those of northern Europeans. Isolated and lonely strangers, West Berlin's 115,000 Turks have created miserable ghettos for themselves in Kreuzberg, Wedding and Neukolhi, the poorest sections of the city...
...Mustached men in dark suits and cloth caps, answering to such names as Ali, Niyazi and Suleyman, hang about the local taverns. Their women, heads modestly covered with kerchiefs, are dressed in billowing pantaloons and long topcoats, even on hot summer days. Streets have informally been given Turkish names, and the shops purvey flat pita bread, mutton, sheep cheese and garlic instead of the Wurst, Bauernbrot (dark bread), veal and pigs' knuckles familiar in stores that serve a German clientele...
West Berlin officials have tried to limit the numbers of Gastarbeiter living in these squalid sections, but the Turks find it almost impossible to move. Explained a young Turkish woman in Neukolhi...
...When I telephoned to check about a vacant apartment in another neighborhood, the landlord hung up on me as soon as he heard that I was Turkish and had three children." The grim living conditions in the ghettos foster not only broken homes but also a climate of violence-murders, knifings and muggings...
There are about 12,000 school-age Turkish youngsters in West Berlin...