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Germany hopes to avoid mistakes made with earlier migrant workers
Published Sun, Aug 20, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Gescher, Germany
AS Germany struggles to absorb more than a million migrants from the Middle East and Africa, the government is hoping to avoid the mistakes it made half a century ago when it brought in a generation of guest workers from Turkey.
In the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of Turkish men were invited in to fill labour shortages. But Germany made no attempt to help them learn the language or upgrade their skills.
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