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Although he was born in Berlin and has lived and worked here for 43 years, Akın says he can still not bring himself to think of Germany as home.
"I feel Turkish and I will always feel Turkish in my heart despite my German passport," says the man who runs a second-hand clothes shop in Kreuzberg, a Berlin district dubbed "little Istanbul".
Akın Ğ who declined to give his second name Ğ said he identified completely with the tens of thousands of Turks who, according to a report published recently by the Berlin Institute for Population and Development, are failing to integrate into German society.
Although Turks have been in Germany for nearly 50 years and are the largest ethnic immigrant group, numbering some 2.8 million, they are the least well integrated of all immigrant communities, the report found.