ABSTRACT
There has been a large Turkish-speaking population in Germany since the initial labor recruitment agreement between the former West Germany and West Berlin and Turkey, which began in 1961 and lasted until 1973. This chapter looks at instructional offerings in Turkish across Germany as a whole. It focuses on preschool, primary, and secondary schools, as well as after-hours programs that fall outside the public school system. The chapter discusses Support for Turkish maintenance in other community contexts. Although the circumstances of Turkish in Germany are in many ways similar to that described by M. Polinsky and O. Kagan in their discussion of heritage languages "in the wild and in the classroom," the situation in Germany differs significantly from that in the U. S. In Germany, the underlying ideology was never that the country was to be a "melting pot"; indeed, up until 2000 the fact that Germany had become a land of immigration was not recognized.
