Since the failed coup attempt by parts of the Turkish military against President Erdogan in summer 2016, the Turkish government has suspended more than 100,000 civil servants on the pretext of having planned a coup. For fear of persecution and arbitrary imprisonment, about 21,000 Turkish citizens have applied for asylum in Germany since then. Many of whom found refuge in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW).
BICC Working Paper 62019 analyses how members of both groups in NRW perceive each other and how they interact with each other in everyday life, which conflicts arise and how the political developments in Turkey affect these …read more
