Word: turkish
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...presented special complications, though. Germany played Turkey, which also happens to be the fatherland of Germany's largest minority, a 2.5 million strong community descended from gastarbeiter who were invited to what was then West Germany from Turkey as laborers in the 1960s. For Wednesday night's game, Turkish fans gathered across Germany in neighborhoods like Berlin's Kreuzberg to wave the crimson flag (Turkey itself was awash in red) and root for their team. The Turkish President, Abdullah Gul, traveled to Basel for the game, sitting a seat away from the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, both heads of state...
...young Turks living in Germany, including many who were born in the country, said they would like to move to Turkey, even if they had never actually lived there, citing an atmosphere of intolerance toward Muslims.) Fears that the game would lead to unrest grew when some cars flying Turkish flags had their tires slashed. That did not dampen Turkish enthusiasm. As the game went on, the Turks, despite their inferior numbers, were outshouting their German brothers, at least on the streets of Berlin, chanting "Red and White, Red and White, Turkey! Turkey...
...city got ready to party all night, cars converged on Kreuzberg waving both Turkish and German flags, chanting through megaphones. A convoy of Turkish cars waved a giant Turkish flag and a smaller German one. Tayfun Kaleci, a young, well-built fan outside an all-night Turkish bakery grinned at a parade of noisily honking cars cruising by after midnight. Turkey was the better team, he says. But in the final, he knows he'll be rooting for Germany - "Definitely!" -With reporting by Olga von Schubert/Kreuzberg
...Turkey, like its great rival Greece in 2004, is having a magical ride in Euro2008. Having played the Croats to a standstill for 118 minutes, and thrilling minutes at that, the Turks seemed finished when Ivica Olic - who'd earlier blown a wide-open chanced from yards away - caught Turkish keeper Recber Rustu off his line and lobbed a pass to Ivan Klasnic for a free header and a goal at 119 minutes. But nothing seems to motivate the Turks more than getting behind, as they demonstrated in clawback wins against both Switzerland and, sensationally, the Czech Republic. The Croats...
...musician Peaches and the all-woman band Chicks on Speed are known for explicit lyrics and the use of sexual paraphernalia on stage. But what was a subcultural phenomenon may now be finding its way into the mainstream. Months before Roche's book was published, 27-year-old German-Turkish rapper Lady Bitch Ray caused a media scandal in a TV interview that included "74 sex words in 75 minutes," by the count of Bild, the tabloid newspaper. TV host Harald Schmidt was prompted to nominate the factions in a new German Kulturkampf: "The shaved against the unshaved, the washed...