That sounds like baseless claim, there’s about 3mil Turkish people / Turkish descent born in Germany and about 7mil Turkish immigrants living in EU, nobody is afraid of them. What people are afraid of is Turkish politics that are far from being ready to join EU, they’ve shown over and over again they don’t care about democracy or law, they want to join to suck up money and save their failing economy
It doesn’t help when Turkey itself has a problem with racism and does a lot of authoritarian stuff that goes against the secular republic as it was envisaged by Atatürk. And of course by EU Standards the country isn’t ready to join the EU and I think it will take a lot of reconstruction after the abolishment of “Erdoganism”
Here is an example coming from Britain with what I mean.
It’s not just that, there were also a lot of racist undertones coming from Germany.
I followed that a lot back in the day and it was mostly Germany being afraid of Turkish people getting into the EU.
That sounds like baseless claim, there’s about 3mil Turkish people / Turkish descent born in Germany and about 7mil Turkish immigrants living in EU, nobody is afraid of them. What people are afraid of is Turkish politics that are far from being ready to join EU, they’ve shown over and over again they don’t care about democracy or law, they want to join to suck up money and save their failing economy
As I said it was one of the factors.
It doesn’t help when Turkey itself has a problem with racism and does a lot of authoritarian stuff that goes against the secular republic as it was envisaged by Atatürk. And of course by EU Standards the country isn’t ready to join the EU and I think it will take a lot of reconstruction after the abolishment of “Erdoganism”
Here is an example coming from Britain with what I mean.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/unfounded-claim-turkey-swing-brexit-referendum/
This was the same feeling in Germany back then. And the Turkish minority in Germany is confronted with enough racism on a daily basis.
Here is a more notorious example from Germany.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/15/neo-nazi-murders-revealing-germanys-darkest-secrets