M&C: Berlin – Germany’s Turkish community expressed indignation on Thursday over derogatory comments by Thilo Sarrazin, an outspoken board member of the German central bank, or Bundesbank.
Sarrazin, 64, had said in an interview that many of Berlin’s Turkish and Arab population were ‘unwilling, and unable to integrate,’ and worsened conditions in the German capital.
‘This is outrageous,’ said Kenan Kolat, who heads the Turkish Association in Germany.
‘Sarrazin often overshoots the mark and gives no thought to the consequences of his statements,’ Kolat told German Press Agency dpa.
‘A large number of Arabs and Turks in this city, whose number has grown through bad policies, have no productive function other than as fruit and vegetable vendors,’ Sarrazin told the culture magazine Lettre International.
‘Forty per cent of all births occur in the underclasses,’ Sarrazin said of Berlin, adding that this was dragging down standards of education.
‘Our educated population is becoming stupider from generation to generation,’ the former politician added.
While migrant families from East European, Vietnamese, Chinese and Indian backgrounds had integrated within a generation, Sarrazin said the children and even grandchildren of Turkish and Arab immigrants failed to learn decent German and did badly at school.
The Turkish-German Employers’ Association and the regional Turkish Association for Berlin-Brandenburg rejected Sarrazin’s remarks.
‘This is absolutely below the belt line and the content is absolute rubbish,’ said Safter Cinar of the regional Turkish Association.
Sarrazin, who was Berlin’s finance minister until he joined the Bundesbank earlier this year, said 70 per cent of Turks and 90 per cent of the Arabic population rejected the German state.
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1 Dayana // Nov 12, 2009 at 8:59 am
Yes, that’s “Germany” of today ;(
Where i live its normal that we get attacked, spitted on and robbed-even by kids !
I f you defend yourself the police says:its bodily injury–my father (70) was punched in the face and my mother kicked in the back by 14 year old guys.
One of them committed already 60! crimes and NOTHING happens to him.
things like that happen everyday and here in Nordrhine-Westphalia you may not even mention a new in the news, cos of “discrimination”. thats a slap in the face to the victims! Its no discrimination–its fact!
they rule our country–and police and politicians close their eyes–and if you say something about it-you are called “nazi”.
I am not surprised that nobody wants have kids here, who later get beaten up by Arabs–who are the Majority anyway.
why they have less chances: they refuse even learn german and disrespect our laws and culture!
Its no fun living here–they will take the country sooner or later–and then the politicians pretend to be surprised!
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