I want to find out also what percentage of that city's population is Turkish? and, Disect: Turk=Turkish, what does Heim=? meaning? Turk+heim, anything to do with Turk, or Turkish? and, is there a BMW factory in / around Turkheim? if yes, is there Turkish engineers / workers working there?  Thanks for all the answers -you are the best Thank you for your time...
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Turkheim is named after the Turkish colony that moved to Germany during WWI.
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Well, first, sentences for homicides are generally much shorter under German law than under American laws. The maximum sentence is usually around 15 years. (So really, it isn't "lax" German courts, it is the law...) One has to wonder why the German homicide rate is a mere fraction of our own.\nAs far as the culturally based episode, I think that what is happening on a far greater scale (but which isn't the topic of news articles) is that Turkish people in Germany are becoming less "Turkish" and more "German". Of course, because the vast majority of Turkish immigrants to Germany come from the very conservative rural areas of Turkey, there are still a lot of very old-fashioned ways of thinking that tend to be preserved. Unexpectedly perhaps, one sees more of these old fashioned elements, for example head scarves, in Berlin than in Istanbul. One of the large issues facing Germany today, and I think this situation is related, is the strong hesitance toward integration of this Turkish population into German society. By now, you have the third, and soon the fourth, generation of Turkish "guest workers" living in Germany. A young Turkish person whose grandfather moved to Germany, whose Turkish parents were born there, and who was himself born there is still not German. German law grants citizenship only by virtue of blood, not place of birth. True, recent reforms to the laws have begun to address this issue, but the fact remains, Turkish people remain outside of "German society." Therefore, these rogue elements of culture tend to exist far longer than they would if "Turkish" people were more fully integrated into "German" society.\nThis young woman's death is a great tragedy; I think you realize that such "honor" killing goes on throughout southern and eastern Asia, particularly in regions where education and political opportunities are limited. It would be to our own discredit if we ignored it until it happens here in the west.
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I thought we were only allowed a certain number of characters with which to spew our idiocy across the proverbial cosmos. Aparently that doesn't apply to those who worship those who steal other peoples "wastes." What was the juxtaposition of the question? Did your "profet" take a hit to the neck region? Or does hitting people in the neck region forcibly convert them from Judaism to Islam. An event similar to the medical event of "fast detoxification under anesthetics" only this ones for your soul. I gift myself two points.
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That's pretty cool.... the problem is I don't know what it means! By the way, where are you from?
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Germany, nameDeutschland, Germany, L'Allemagne, Alemania, La Germania, Saksa and the sources of all these names!\nThere was a post on rec.travel.europe today that got me thinking about the name of the country I'm going to, and decided to do some research. Thanks to the Word Nerds, I even have some sources for it.\n\nAnyway the post this morning, posted by David Horne, on rec.travel.europe said:\n\n\n\n"German deutsch is from Old High German diutisg and Low German theodisc, meaning "of the people," which comes from an Indo-European root, teuta-, meaning "tribe" or "clan." This became tuath "people" in Old Irish and\ntheod "people, nation in Old English." \n\n\nThe Italian tedesco comes from this root, as do the Swedish word tysk and the English word Dutch, which formerly was applied to all Germans, but gradually came to refer only to those Germanic people who inhabit\nwhat is now the Netherlands"\n\n\n\n\nDavid's source is livejournal.com. The full article, on Etymology of the various names for the people of the area of Germany, from all kinds of languages, is at http://www.livejournal.com/community/linguaphiles/344988.html\n\nEtymonline.com, which is the source that both the Word Nerds and leo.org suggest for English Etymology.\n\nThe names are all names of people in that area of central Europe which comprised a bunch of tribes for many years. Indeed the current borders of Germany will be only 15 years old when I am over there in early October. It almost seems like people call the country by the name of the tribe they came in contact with the mosts. \n\n"Germany" comes from Latin and date back to Julius Caeser. Etymonline traces the etymology back to Celtic words Noisy (garim) or neighbor (gair), while Live Journal's linguaphiles identify spear-man, or gari+mann as possible eymologies. Note that some version of the Germania version of the name of the country is used in Italian (La Germania), Hebrew ("germanit"), Hindi (jarman),a dn Indonesian (jerman) according to Live Journal. \n\nThe French/Spanish version of the name of the country (L'Allemagne, Alemania), according to etymonline AND the linguaphiles comes from a tribe in the southwest corner of Germany, Alsace, and Switzerland. It could come from a word meaning all men, "Alamanniz" (precursor to "alle Männer). or come from "Allobroges" which means "foreign men" and may refer to the fact that this tribe moved into an area previously occupied by different people.\n\nDeutsch (and ultimately Deutschland) makes its appearance in 1380 according to etymonline, and comes from the ancestor languge of German, duit-isc, or teodisc (note consonant shift, from the t to the d). It means people, community, country. Diutusklant, the predecessor of Deutschland, was, according to etymonline, in use from the 13th century. \n\nTeutonic feels like it should be related to these, but it refers to a tribe on the coast of Germany, although at some point it probably shared the same root and also means people. (How many countries do you think have called themselves "the people?"\n\nI note that the Livejournal linguaphiles also address the roots of slavic names for Germany, but I'm tired, and I'm not going into that. You can read it yourself. \n\nd Deutschland in the German language
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Hi there: I would like to help you ;) Do you have any more hints? May be... the city they arrived to? perhaps, where did they come from? Hope I hear from you soon...
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*sigh* Ok two things......\n\nWe wonder why middle Easterners don't have an accurate impression of Americans, and then we do this? Hmmmmm. Maybe they DO have an accurate impression afterall. \n\nSecondly, at least when we build something mammoth locally, it is put up for referendum. Did our lovely Senate give the go ahead for this?? \n\nAll of a sudden I feel I lost my voice. \n\n(p.s. I had no idea you were a teacher! Dang....do your students roll their eyes at your puns as much as mine do? haha)
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Good answer, Drof. This Asker seems Clueless. Could be the language barrier raising its ugly head again.
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i'm greek...there are no actuall diferrences between greeks and turks...i believe we have even more things in common than deferences!ou by the way greece rox!
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If someone is claiming, insisting on something, he has to proove it first. \nDefense or deny or apologise...for what? \n\nWhich government, which history claims that tall tale? Turkish documents are open for everybody. But none of Us or French or Armeinan acepted to come and discuss on these documents. THEY only rejected the Ottoman documents, photos, arguments. \n\nIf someone is claiming, he must proove it. And then he can ask the reasons of denial.
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Riiight. Haven't really kept uop with my Turkish lately. how about trying it again in English?
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Well, is quite an interesting question. His or her name should be Özgur(which means "freedom" in turkish and is used by both man and woman) Maybe this is a good reason for he/she to be Tiki :D
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According to the latest  census available up to 2000, out of the total World population of 6,043,284 thousands, the Muslim population is 1,213,373 thousands which comes to 20.08% of the total population. Christians are 2,052,145 thousands which is 33.96% of the total. Jews are 14,424 thousands which is 0.24% of the total.\n\nMuslim population is growing at the fastest rate  due to high birth rate among them  in Afro-Asian region and polygamy as allowed in the Quran. The Jews' growth rate is in negative. At the present rate their number may be reduced to less than a million in the whole world over next 5 decades. The growth rate among the Christians is steady since 1950. They are getting lots of poor people converted through Missionaries in China and India who are called Crypto Christians whose number is not reflected in the figures given above.  \n\nHope, this meets your requirements. For anything more, please contact me over Internet. Thanks.
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First of all ,have you decided which university (i suppose you are a university student) you are gonna attend? There are many prestigious universities, both state and private. Turkey is a real cool country; with great history, GREAT food and lots of things to do. Do not hasitate at all about the country or about Istanbul. As for the universities check out the links..Hope they help..
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Marahaba! im not Turkish, but have freinds in Antalya and istanbul....some people tell me it is not a pretty language...but i find it to be beautiful....... and unique easy to learn too!  so try   u might like it!  cheers!
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I don't know if you have already or not, but you might want to go to the bottom and log on to German Yahoo and post this question in Deutsch...to show that you spead German...probably get some response.
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Whoa!! small world.  My family is from that town.  I'm sorry I don't speak german or romanian.  Only russian.  You wouldn't happen to know the Ballmers would you?  I think there are several that still live there.