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...irony there. "Turks came here to work," says Turan. "We were Gastarbeiter - guest workers. And there was work. But it changed very quickly after the Wall came down." As Ossis moved west in search of jobs, Turks found themselves ousted and isolated. Their children then refused to assimilate. In Kreuzberg and Neu Kölln, the Turkish flag is everywhere: in windows, on shirts, draped across shoulders and heads. "The kids are interested in Islam and think of themselves as Turkish," says Turan. "They say if the Germans don't want us, we don't want them...
...Lengsfeld, who is standing as the conservative CDU candidate for Berlin's Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district in the Sept. 27 federal election, faces a tough battle, as her constituency is dominated by the Green Party. So she figured the best way to win votes for her and for her party was to show off some of the CDU's best assets. (See pictures of East Germany making light of its dark past...
...spokesperson predictably declined to comment. At the CDU's national headquarters, a spokeswoman tartly said that "there was no prior consent for this issue." Party officials refuse to be drawn on the details. There's no denying, though, that Lengsfeld's womanly attributes have turned the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg into the most exciting constituency in the German capital and made the CDU the hot topic of the day. And that must give Merkel plenty to chuckle about...
...proximity to the site from which Hitler actually directed the Nazi terror that makes the issue particularly sensitive. But the German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung has a different theory: "Berlin cherishes a culture of civil disobedience", the newspaper wrote. Other commentators pointed out that Frank L. "of course" lived in Kreuzberg, a Berlin district known for its squatter and punk scene, and annual demonstrations and riots on May 1. The attacker told Tageszeitung that it was a demonstration on the occasion of Ronald Reagan's visit to Berlin in 1987 that prompted him to retire from his police...
...city got ready to party all night, cars converged on Kreuzberg waving both Turkish and German flags, chanting through megaphones. A convoy of Turkish cars waved a giant Turkish flag and a smaller German one. Tayfun Kaleci, a young, well-built fan outside an all-night Turkish bakery grinned at a parade of noisily honking cars cruising by after midnight. Turkey was the better team, he says. But in the final, he knows he'll be rooting for Germany - "Definitely!" -With reporting by Olga von Schubert/Kreuzberg