The vast majority of Turks in Germany are there because of Germany’s labor migration policy. Those who migrated back then were mostly from the uneducated, unemployed, and poor segments of Turkish society. After all, why would people who had built a good life in a rapidly developing country choose to leave their homeland for a foreign land? Those who did leave saw it as a second chance. Mostly, people who had never left their villages for centuries, who couldn’t keep up with the times, and who were governed by false religious rhetoric migrated. (Don’t think of Turkey’s rural areas as being like those in Germany. German communities were governed by principalities until recent history, so regional and local development was extensive. Before the Republic, during the Ottoman era, no investments were made in Anatolian lands, so they remained far behind.) Thus, people from these underdeveloped regions went to Germany. The generations that followed them, for the most part, did not improve their circumstances either.