Association of Turkish workers in Cologne and the surrounding area

The Association of Turkish Workers in Cologne and the surrounding area was the first Turkish workers' organization in Germany . It was established in 1962, a few months after the signing of the recruitment agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Turkey . It was a model for the founding of numerous other workers' associations by Turkish migrant workers in Germany.

In 1963 the organization received legal status as a registered association . However, the association's statutes did not expressly include the assumption of trade union functions as a task.

Individual evidence

↑ Handan Cetinkaya: Turkish self-organization in Germany: new pragmatism after the ideological self-tearing . In Dietrich Thränhardt (Ed.): Immigrant networks and their integration quality in Germany and Israel . LIT Verlag, Münster 2000, ISBN 978-3-8258-5062-3 , p. 85

[1] Handan Cetinkaya: Turkish self-organization in Germany: new pragmatism after the ideological self-tearing . In Dietrich Thränhardt (Ed.): Immigrant networks and their integration quality in Germany and Israel . LIT Verlag, Münster 2000, ISBN 978-3-8258-5062-3 , p. 85