>>Really ?? I would not trade my homeplace for anything else. I can imagine most of the turks would not either. Turkish culture is very different from the western culture. Those looking for money, career or other opportunity might, but the other 95% just won't.
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>Speak for yourself. Not only most of the immigrants in the USA I know would prefer to live in their home country if they could have this level (as Tracy said), but let me ask you: have you ever visited Germany? Have you seen any Turkish people there? I've been and have seen entire Turkish neighborhoods. The number of Turks in Germany is around 2 million. I have no doubt many would readily leave Turkey and move to the USA if they could.
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>See: Turkish Diaspora (close to 5.2 million left the country according to the low estimates). As a reference, the population of Turkey is estimated at 71 million. So already over 7% live outside the country. Over 350,000 live in the Netherlands.
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>Just because you would not leave your country does not mean Victor is wrong.

And Walter is only wrong about percentages. Those looking for money, career or other opportunity should be about 2/3 of the population anywhere. For some, the latter counts as opportunity to survive, for some to just live a normal life, and for some there's the greed, of course.

And note that the Turks in Germany have never aspired to become Germans, or to live German lives. So you have Turkish neighborhoods - they didn't mix well with the Germans.

And, ah "trade my birthplace for anything else" is really not an option. I have kept it. The offerings for trade were too low ;).