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A leading Turkish scholar has likened elements of the latest German debate on integration to racist 19th century notions of "primitive" immigrants who breed uncontrollably.
The new head of the centre for Turkish Studies and Integration Research at Essen University, Haci Halil Uslucan, said the Sarrazin debate appeared to have flushed out old ideas about race that did not belong in the 21st century.
"Take the now-revived discussion of migrants' 'high fertility,'" he said. "Debate about it is like the 19th century racist discussions about 'primitives' who could not control their drives," he told Wednesday's edition of daily Der Tagesspiegel.