Imagine you move to Istanbul. Your daughter attends a Turkish school. On the first day, her classmates want to get to know her: “Tell me, had you already had sex by age 12? How many abortions have you had? Why do you Germans drink so much beer? Why do your priests rape little boys? And German politicians – are they really all pedophiles? Hopefully your parents won’t throw you out at age 16 so you can learn how to stand on your own two feet. And tell me, why do you stick your elderly in nursing homes? And why do you murder Turks because they’re Turks? Tell me, what in the world is going on back home?”

Özlem Gezer: ‘Turkified’: Why I Can Never Be a Proper German