Green Border: a stain on democracy

Green Border: a stain on democracy

We from the “West” are never tired of telling the world how important human rights are to us. But only as long as our own prosperity is not threatened. How else could we explain the fact that we use our tax money to support ex-dictators like Mubarak or Gaddafi and still-active autocrats like Erdogan? Or rather, that we can use

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Turkish migrant on trial!

15 participants from 10 european countries are putting the rule to the test: playing the role of a turkish migrant on trial for six days! What happened? The integration experiment “the other side of the coin” is the answer. All participants realize almost instantly that they are pretty fast at their wit’s end when being faced with exactly the same

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Lei(d)tkultur = definining culture?

Saturday night. Time for a movie. The lobby is packed. Masses squall into mainstream movies such as “Just go with it” or “Powder Girl”. I am surprised to hear that “Almanya – welcome to Germany!” will be shown in the largest movie theatre. I wonder whether it is due to the interest in our turkish fellow citizens or whether it

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