{"id":16733,"date":"2010-02-06T18:38:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T18:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=16733"},"modified":"2014-01-05T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T15:56:00","slug":"turkish-community-warns-of-continued-racism-in-germany-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/02\/06\/turkish-community-warns-of-continued-racism-in-germany-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish community warns of continued racism in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday, 1 June 2008<\/strong><\/span>
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\n(IRNA) – Germany’s Turkish community warned of continued racism in the country, while marking the 15th anniversary of an anti-foreigner arson attack in the western city of Solingen which killed five Turkish women and girls, the press reported Thursday.<\/p>\n

There is still a high degree of xenophobia in Germany society which has to be combated through better education, stressed the Turkish community of Germany (TGD) and the Foundation of Turkish Studies (ZfT) in a statement.<\/p>\n

“Aggressive behaviour and prejudices are already being taught at the age of a child. Therefore, one must act pedagogically at an early stage,” ZfT director,Faruk Sen was quoted saying.<\/p>\n

There are 7.5 million foreigners living in Germany of which 2.5 million are Turks.<\/p>\n

A recent confidential government report revealed widespread xenophobia among millions of teenagers in Germany.<\/p>\n

Almost every German youth said there are too many foreigners living in Germany.<\/p>\n

Nearly every 9th grader has Islamophobic tendencies while every 13 teenager admits to having committed a right-wing motivated criminal act.<\/p>\n

Germany has been the scene of a series of vicious neo-Nazi attacks in recent months, especially against foreigners.<\/p>\n

German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has repeatedly warned of a growing far-right problem in his country, branding it a “steadily growing danger.”<\/p>\n

Schaeuble had voiced concern that the number of far-right crimes between 2005 and 2006 rose from 15,000 to 18,000 offenses, indicating a 9.3 percent increase.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the number of anti-foreigner attacks hovered at 511 in 2006, showing a 37 percent rise from the previous year.<\/p>\n

Political observers link the dramatic rise in the number of far-right crimes to the recent success of neo-Nazi parties in key regional elections in several east German states.<\/p>\n

Young neo-Nazis feel also more and more emboldened to commit hate crimes, knowing that police won’t charge them with an offense.<\/p>\n

Most of the suspects implicated in far-right crimes are juveniles.<\/p>\n

Hate crime experts and sociologists have repeatedly stressed that Germany’s political leadership lacked a clear and effective strategy to fight neo-Nazi and racist crimes.<\/p>\n

1 June 2008<\/span><\/p>\n

Turkish Weekly<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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