I also think that most Germans do not have anything against any Turkish individuals, but they still may dislike them as a group because of some legitimate reasons, like the fact that Turkish people live in isolated communities, do not integrate, many do not even speak German.
Someone told me a true story: a German person goes into a Turkish store in Germany and the seller did not speak German of course, so he calls someone else and says "hey, a german tourist came".

I think that some Turkish people in Germany do need to acknowledge the problems in Turkish communities instead of blaming Germans for disliking them, allegedly for no reason. Yes, it is wrong to generalize, but most of these issues are not there out of nowhere.

How tolerant should we be? I personally don´t care if people want to be isolated in their own communities. What I personally have a problem with is when I see business owners/workers who can´t speak English in my country. I think if you move to a country who´s language is English, you should make an effort to learn it.

This also goes for outsourcing that many companies do here in the U.S. Do you know how frustrating it is to call a company and get a call center in India instead?

In response to the initial post, I have first hand anecdotal experience about Turks in Germany from an organisation in Hamburg who have put programmes into place to assist Turks who live there, whom I have worked with.

Now who´s responsibility is it to ensure that Turks learn German? Considering these Turks were invited to Germany in the 1960 to perfom jobs that most Germans would not do, then surely it is the responsibility of the German government to ensure that these people have access to German classes and they have assistance to integrate.

Now you have 2nd and 3rd generation Turks, some of whom have very low levels of education. This does not mean they are thick. It is more to do with the fact that their parents have not learned German properly. They go to school with little or no German and therefore their education suffers because of it. Hence they cannot get into the jobs that they are probably capable of doing.

The language spoken in the home by the now 2nd and 3rd generation Turks, is known as "kitchen language" in Germany. In other words they can only speak a bit of German and they can´t speak Turkish properly either. So their conversation is limited to "kitchen conversations" causing their language skills and education levels to become lower.

That is why they adopt the enclave way of living, retaining their culture and their language.

The organisation in Hamburg has assisted many Turks through support (like a job centre) to learn German, get into decent jobs or start their own businesses and there are some very successful stories to come from this. But funds are limited with the funding for this project coming from European Social Fund.

It is OK for us to say they should get up of their arses and do something for themselves, well many have tried - some have succeeded and others have failed.