By IRNA,
Berlin : Fed up with racial and religious discrimination, a growing number of highly educated of German-born Turks leave Germany for better opportunities in other English-speaking countries and Turkey, the weekly Der Spiegel news magazine reported Saturday.
Thousands of Turkish university graduates whose parents came as immigrants to Germany, are seriously contemplating to emigrate as they no longer feel wanted.
According to a poll released by futureorg, a group based in the western city of Krefeld, some 38 percent of Turkish and German-Turkish professionals said they intended to emigrate to Turkey.
Of those wishing to emigrate, some 42 percent said it was mainly because they did not feel “at home” in Germany.
A majority of those respondents seriously questioned whether Germany is actually pursuing “a credible integration policy” for the country’s 2.5 million- strong Turkish community.
There are presently 20,000 Turkish students in Germany.
Highly educated Turks and other migrants from Islamic and African groups are often being denied well-paying jobs in Germany because of either racial or religious discrimination.
Many skilled Muslim women cannot find work because German employers oppose their hijab.
Germany’s older generation harbors especially racial sentiments against foreigners.