First visit by a head of government from North Rhine-Westphalia to Turkey on the occasion of the recruitment agreement and the country's anniversary.
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The German-Turkish recruitment agreement was concluded 65 years ago. NRW is also celebrating its 80th anniversary.
North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst is setting off on a three-day trip to Turkey on Monday. The occasion is the 65th anniversary of the German-Turkish recruitment agreement, which initiated the immigration of hundreds of thousands of Turkish workers to the Federal Republic of Germany, and the 80th anniversary of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the first trip by a North Rhine-Westphalian head of government to Turkey.
According to government sources, Wüst will first fly to the capital Ankara, where political talks are planned. On Tuesday we continue to Istanbul. The program there includes an economic conference and the awarding of a prize for tolerance and reconciliation between cultures to the former captain of the German national soccer team, Ilkay Gündogan.
A third of all people with Turkish roots in Germany live in North Rhine-Westphalia. The annual trade volume of the most populous federal state with Turkey is ten to twelve billion euros, around 20 percent of the total German-Turkish trade volume. According to the state government, more than 1,200 Turkish companies are active in North Rhine-Westphalia. Last year, every third flight from Germany to Turkey started at an airport in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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