After decades, German Turks still feel like outsiders

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58163674Reporting from Munich, Germany — Eleven years of trying to fit in have yet to pay off for Yazay Eminaga.

He has learned German. He has German friends. Soon he’ll earn his doctorate in engineering from a highly rated university in Munich.

But his buddies still rib him for being “a killjoy” because, as a Muslim, he won’t eat pork or drink beer at parties. No landlord in downtown Munich seems willing to rent a nice apartment to a 31-year-old single Turkish man.

via After decades, German Turks still feel like outsiders – latimes.com.


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