Another big company in Germany has revealed a couple of months ago (October 2013) their family firm’s past links to Germany’s Nazi party. In the long interview with the Die Zeit newspaper, the head of the company August Oetker said, “My father was a National Socialist”.
I have started to question more and more the function of dual nationality, and tried to understand the responsibility that comes with adopting a dual nationality, whilst witnessing the Gezi Park protests that erupted in Istanbul and now have spread across Turkey. For me, it was very interesting to observe from the first day of the protest spontaneous reaction of many of the nearly 5 million Turks living abroad. Within an hour of the protest starting some Turks based in London, immediately created a group page on Facebook, in support of the events unfolding in Turkey. And shortly thereafter, many more social media pages and updates followed. This was observed not only in London, but in many more cities around mainly Europe where Turks reside and work for the last sixty years.
Semra Eren-Nijhar 