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by cblconfederate 1775 days ago
has really turkey been spared from brain drain ? There are millions in germany and other european countries and i d wager they face much less hurdles than most other middleastern immigrants
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The ones in Germany are different than the recent immigration. After the WW2 Germany required workforce and hundreds of thousands of Turks enlisted, other immigrated due to political reasons. The inventors of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine are the children of Turkish workers who made Germany their home.

The more recent immigration to EU, UK and the USA tends to be among the much more highly skilled.

The brain drain of Turkey is at all times high. Doctors, software developers, Engineers are fleeing in thousands. What I meant was, it could have been worse.

"are the children of Turkish workers who made Germany their home."

Since Erdogan never claimed this as a "Turkish invention" nor talked in the news about it, I suspect the guy not to be Turkish but to be Kurdish. :-)

You're incorrect, I don't know if the guy is Kurdish. But Turkey and Erdogan himself is very proud of the Turkish couple*.

He has taken stage in Turkey on TV alongside with Erdogan to outline the delivery of vaccines to Turkey several times.