Being Muslim-Turks in Germany and Almancı (Turks living in Germany) in Turkey: Candidates for Religious Leaders (Imam) in Germany Training at Marmara University Faculty of Theology

In an unprecedented manner, Western countries are becoming diverse with multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-religious populations immigrating from different geographies. Former colonizer countries in Europe, like France, Netherlands and Britain, covered the need for labor from their former colonies in the second half of the twentieth century; people migrated from these countries in seek of better life and economic prosperity. 1 Countries like Germany, on the other hand, signed treaties with a number of states beginning in the 1950s to recruit foreign workers. 2 Germany received the largest number of guest workers from Turkey.
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Being Muslim, Germany

Being Muslim-Turks in Germany and Almancı (Turks living in Germany) in Turkey: Candidates for Religious Leaders (Imam) in Germany Training at Marmara University Faculty of Theology

In an unprecedented manner, Western countries are becoming diverse with multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-religious populations immigrating from different geographies. Former colonizer countries in Europe, like France, Netherlands and Britain, covered the need for labor from their former colonies in the second half of the twentieth century; people migrated from these countries in seek of better life and economic prosperity. 1 Countries like Germany, on the other hand, signed treaties with a number of states beginning in the 1950s to recruit foreign workers. 2 Germany received the largest number of guest workers from Turkey.

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  • Naika Faroutan, Identity and Muslim Integration in Germany, Washington, DC: Migration Policy Institute, 2013, p.4.
  • Gökçe Yurdakul, From Guest Workers into Muslims: Transformation of Turkish Immigrant Assosiations in Germany, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2009, p. 12