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Notizbuch: Mr. Yondemir wants to expand, portrait of a Turkish foreign worker‘s family

Nomination 2012
European CIVIS Radio Prize – long programmes

Author:	Dr. Gabriele Knetsch
Editorial:	Jutta Prediger

Feature, BR

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Yücel Yondemir has made it: he has built up a chain of eight tailoring alteration shops. And he adds a new one every year. The beginnings in Germany were tough: Yondemir‘s mother arrived from Anatolia 40 years ago. She sorted offal in a poultry factory. Her son Yücel worked his way up without any special education: from crane operator to bus-driver, from bus-driver to businessman. His daughter Yasmin looks after his office today.

Excerpt from the jury’s statement
An immigration story – eye to eye with the protagonists.

integration and cultural diversity    migration