13 October 2010 Last updated at 11:52 ET

Germans break silence over immigration

By Stephen Evans
BBC News, Berlin

Mr Erdogan's scarf seemed to portray two cultures happily intertwined When Angela Merkel sat beside Recep Tayyip Erdogan as their two countries played each other at football on Friday, nothing could have seemed friendlier.

The Turkish prime minister's scarf even combined the colours of both teams, integrated nicely in the fabric. Like our two peoples in the fabric of society, it seemed to say.

And when Mesut Ozil, the star of the German side, scored against the land of his parents, he seemed almost embarrassed.

Born and bred in Germany to immigrants from Turkey, he was not going to gloat.

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