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Article: The Turks are coming! (Turkey's efforts to join European Community)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- February 27, 1987
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THE TURKS ARE COMING!
THREE HUNDRED YEARS ago this cryof alarm was frequently heard in Europe. Now the Turks are coming again, but in various non-belligerent ways.
The Turks have peacefully invadedEurope and are to be found all over the map as "guest workers.' They are not much liked by ordinary people in many of these countries, mainly because unemployment is growing, but they are very much appreciated by employers as hard-working, reliable, simple, and abstemious, though unassimilable (their religion is too different to let them melt into local patterns, as other guest workers--Yugoslavs, Italians, Spaniards--do). In the big German cities--above all, ...