How serious are the expectations that many qualified Turks plan to return to Turkey from Germany?
They’re quite serious. Approximately 100,000 qualified people of Turkish origin are expected to return to Turkey this year. There are three reasons behind this: One is that Germany has lost its high growth rate. Secondly, racism has risen in Germany. And lastly, qualified people who came back to Turkey have seen that they reach success more easily in Turkey than in Germany. Germany’s cumulative rate of growth in 2002-2007 was 7 percent while this figure was 42 percent for Turkey. Therefore, young people see more opportunities in Turkey than in Germany. Turks also do not buy as much real estate in Germany as they did before, first because they tend to go back to Turkey, and second because of economic hardships. Do those developments cause worries at the level of the German government? They have slowly started to realize the situation. They once tried to attract Indian technology workers back to Germany, but they did not come back because salaries have fallen and unions have lost their i
