Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
TURKISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY-SOSYOLOJI DERGISI, sa.22, ss.231-251, 2011 (ESCI)
The present study deals with native language-centered arguments concerning the struggles of Turks in Germany reaching a population of 3 million, over 500 thousand of whom are students, to keep living with their cultural identities. Language as bearer of culture constitutes the basis of issues of "integration" and "assimilation" between Turks in Germany and the Germany State. While Germany regards the teaching of its own language to immigrants as the most important phase of its policy of integration, Turks in Germany see it as a threat to the survival and reconstruction of their cultural identity that Turkish started to be spoken with fewer grammar rules after the second generation, that instruction in mother tongue is being phased out of schools, and that young people favor speaking German over their mother tongue Turkish. While spoken language of Turks in Germany may vary depending on different communication environments, efforts are being made for Turkish to be taught at state schools.