Turks in France or French Turks (French: Turcs de France; Turkish: Fransa Türkleri) are Turkish people who have immigrated to France. However, the term may also refer to French-born persons who have Turkish parents or who have a Turkish ancestral background. After Germany, France is the main destination country for Turks who emigrate. According to INSEE, French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies, immigrants and their children (2nd generation) represented 459,000 individuals in 2008.
Read more about Turks In France: Demographics, Culture, Integration, Organisations and Associations, See Also
Famous quotes containing the word france:
“But as some silly young men returning from France affect a broken English, to be thought perfect in the French language; so his Lordship, I think, to seem a perfect understander of the unintelligible language of the Schoolmen, pretends an ignorance of his mother-tongue. He talks here of command and counsel as if he were no Englishman, nor knew any difference between their significations.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)