SocietyMany Turkish ‘guest workers’ face poverty in old age

West Germany and Turkey signed a temporary labor-recruitment agreement on October 30, 1961. Sixty-five years later, many Turkish workers who came under it cannot support themselves on their pensions. Turkish citizens’ pensions average about €360 less than those of German pensioners, and they rely on top-up welfare benefits at a higher rate.

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