Next Mexico will propose the same thing for California, Texas, Arizona, etc. McCain will probably agree. B
SPIEGEL ONLINE - February 8, 2008, 06:01 PM URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,534090,00.html TURKEY'S PRIME MINISTER SURPRISES MERKEL Erdogan Proposes Turkish-Medium High Schools for Germany Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suggested that Germany, which is home to 2.7 million people of Turkish descent, found Turkish-medium schools. The novel idea took Chancellor Angela Merkel by surprise. Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in Berlin on Friday for a discussion with the German chancellor and a group of German and Turkish students. <http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,1091682,00.jpg> Getty Images Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in Berlin on Friday for a discussion with the German chancellor and a group of German and Turkish students. "Knowledge knows no borders." That's what Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told a group of Turkish and German students gathered at the German chancellory on Friday. It certainly sounds like a nice idea, but the reality of national borders makes things a tad more complicated when it comes to actual educational systems. Hence Erdogan's suggestion that Germany should found Turkish-medium high schools and universities came as a bit of a surprise to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was also present at the question-and-answer session. For immigrants to speak better German, Erdogan explained, they have to be able to speak their own mother tongue first. Turkish teachers and schools could help them along, he said. "The German government should have no problem with that," Erdogan said, adding that, "whatever needs to be done for integration, should be done." Erdogan also pleaded for existing German high schools to hire teachers from Turkey to ease the language barrier immigrants often face in their adopted country. Around 2.7 million people of Turkish descent currently live in Germany. Merkel reacted cautiously to the suggestion of sending Turkish teachers to Germany. German schoolteachers need to have "an essential openness to all students," she said, explaining that it was not necessary to have teachers from immigrant backgrounds to meet the needs of Turkish-German children. However Merkel said she was open to another of Erdogan's recommendations, namely that social workers be assigned to cases involving immigrants from Turkey. The Turkish prime minister has been in Germany since Thursday, when he visited <http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,533851,00.html> the town of Ludwigshafen, scene of a recent tragic fire which killed five children and four adults, all of Turkish descent. The reason for the blaze remains under investigation, but there are speculations that the fire was caused by arson and may <http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,533502,00.html> have been racially motivated. After his visit to Berlin, Erdogan is expected in southern Germany on Saturday morning for the 44th Munich Conference on Security Policy, where he will deliver the day's opening speech. rjm/reuters [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
