Zafer senocak biography samples

Berlin, 30 March

Dear Abdelkader,

I grew up in a family in which religion played a major role. During the fifties and sixties, my father was the publisher of one of the most influential Muslim magazines in Turkey. The magazine, which was simply called "Islam" was an intellectual platform for a conservative variety of Islam which tended towards theology, mysticism and philosophy. His kind of Islam was at the same time not directed towards politics: that approach to Islam had been largely banished from public life since the reforms of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

My mother, on the other hand, was a primary school teacher who came from a family of secularised civil servants. Her father was a judge – one of the first generation of lawyers in the Turkish republic. Her family viewed

Islam as something for the lower classes, symbolised by the headscarf of the peasant women and domestic servants. For them, Islam was the main reason for the country's bac

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“Outgrowing Gastarbeiterliteratur”: Germanness Redefined in the Poetry of Zafer Şenocak and Zehra Çirak

Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo

This article originally appeared in VI:I1 of NMR

Due to the massive migratory movements of the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries, the borders that outline the definition of German national identity are now strikingly fluid. Efforts to define “Germanness” in terms of a single common language, religion, ethnicity, or restrictive literary canon fail to encompass—and at times even acknowledge—the complex identities, artistic productions, and experiences of cultural hybridity of at least 20 million Germans with Migrationshintergrund [migration background]and the 11 million people that comprise the Ausländische Bevolkerung [foreign population] of Germany in [1] In the de facto multicultural nation that Germany is now, Zafer Şenocak, born in Ankara in , and Zehra Çirak, born in Istanbul in , use (and purposefully misuse) German to subver

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A Turkish-German Writer on Ways to Overcome the German-Turkish Divide (August 22/23, )

But the Heart Still Beats Turkish

Nowhere do Turks feel closer to their new German homeland than in Berlin. Here in the city on the Spree you can eat döner kebab[1]to your heart’s content and sample a taste of the Turkish lifestyle as well. Nonetheless, Turks in Germany are still not truly accepted. The German-Turkish elective affinity continues to suffer from a lack of intercultural competence. A programmatic look at migration.

Where do Turks in Germany feel at home today? There is no single answer to this question. Of the two million Turks in Germany, about , have become naturalized German citizens bygd now. This number will double, perhaps even triple, in the coming years.

But for many, a German passport fryst vatten nothing more than a document pulled from one’s pocket at the border. According to a kinesisk proverb, “patriotism is the love of the good things we ate in our childhood.” German cuisine h