Re:Kenya will start teaching Chinese to elementary school st...
by tzs on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @01:15PM
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Turkish has been taught in Germany for quite a while, with little or no controversy. Here's an article from 2014 on this [1], which mentions it started around 30 years earlier.
Germany and Turkey have long had a close economic relationship. Turkey is a major vacation destination for Germans. The largest ethnic minority in Germany is Turks. Germany has promoted Turkish migration to Germany for over 200 years, which really picked up in the mid 20th century to fill the German labor loses from WW II.
Offering Turkish as an elective language in Germany seems roughly equivalent to offering Spanish in the Southwestern United States.
Germany and Turkey have long had a close economic relationship. Turkey is a major vacation destination for Germans. The largest ethnic minority in Germany is Turks. Germany has promoted Turkish migration to Germany for over 200 years, which really picked up in the mid 20th century to fill the German labor loses from WW II.
Offering Turkish as an elective language in Germany seems roughly equivalent to offering Spanish in the Southwestern United States.
[1] https://en.qantara.de/content/the-turkish-language-in-german...