The noise surrounding Oswieil sparks debate about integration in Germany
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The noise raised by the angry decision of the Turkish-born German player, Mesut Ozil, to leave Germany`s national team, provokes a division among the migrant community in the country and raises new concerns about state integration. The Minister of Integration of the most crowded German province of North Rhine-Westphalia has yesterday called on the country to use the storm that has raged over Ozil`s claim that he was subject to racism and `right-wing propaganda` to start new debates on integration. `We need more young people with a migrant background in the civil service, ` said Joachim Stamp on German public television. `We need a lot of debates on the topic, and I think this is an opportunity if we take advantage of it right now, ` he said. The dramatic decision of Oswald, who is now a star in the English Arsenal, and whose father came to Germany with his family when he was 2 years old, to withdraw from the German national team, provokes a divide of nearly 4 millionTurks living in the largest economy in Europe.
`This is a good solution, ` said Hakan Kaimak, who works in the food business in Berlin and supports the withdrawal of 29-year-old Josil. `Sport and politics should not be mixed up, ` said Caymac. `Everyone should have their own opinion, but in football it just should not play a role. `
Oswald has been criticized as he poses together with another German player of Turkish origin, Ilkay Gundogan, for photos withTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan two months ago as part of the preparations for the Turkish elections. `It was a mistake that our President Erdogan was shooting with Ozil and Gundogan, ` said Turkish-born Ridvan Turcoglu. `He uses the boys, ` said 59-year-old Turkoglu, a bookmaker customer. According to Tyrkoglu, the withdrawal of Ozil was correct in the light of the subsequent media storm. `What would have happened if it went on? It would be even worse. `
Erdogan, who enjoys broad support among the Turks living in Germany, has also been involved in the argument by supporting Josephine. The Turkish leader said that `the statement (of Yosil) and its position are completely national and regional` - concepts that Ankara usually uses in the sense of patriotic in her eyes. Erdogan spoke to Joshil on Monday evening. According to the right-wing populist party `Alternative to Germany` (AZ), the withdrawal of Oosil from the German national team and his attack on the football team highlight the failure of the migrant population in Germany to integrate. Nothing `could break the lie of integration in a more convincing way, ` said AIG leading MP Armin-Paulus Hammel.
German Foreign Minister Haiko Maas responded, urging the country to step up the fight against xenophobia, which is part of the debate on integration brought about by the decision by Josil. `We all have a duty to stand up for the values that make up our country:tolerance, diversity and freedom, ` Maas told the German media group Funke.
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