Yes, sorry, let's stay on basketball. It was only meant as a complimentary side comment about how well-educated Turks in Britain are.
Germany is the exact opposite culture to Turks' own. When they sent me to work in Steinfurt (Munster-Osnabruck area) I requested trade, either send me somewhere else or I was quitting. They sent me to Milan area in that time. Turks and Teutonic people were always rivals except WW1 as Turks and British were always ally except WW1. Even nowadays you don't hear any criticism by British people about Turkey when Germans try to be obstacle in any possible situation. Voting: Few years ago, we discussed that which foreign leader we wanted to replace Erdogan as country head and there was only one, Japanese premier Abe ( was killed after that). It is not Erdogan problem, nearly all country heads are clownish, bad guys. Look at the folk: Biden, Scholz, Sunak, Macron, Meloni, Bibi,... Forget about running a country, would you employ one of that charlatans in your own company? My daughter doing a neurosurgery PhD, she is in 4th year of 5, first scientific paper published in May (colloboration of Minnesota University) and might work as surgeon in the US, UK, France (she is also francophone) but no way Germany, Austria,Switzerland. Better if she stays in Turkey as her income as PPP will be higher than any mentioned country. People forget that as GDP PPP Turkey is the 11th country just following the UK and France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP) It is unacceptable for Turks to be behind of Brits and French as we have 30 % more population but it is an unfortunate fact. You see lots of people talk about Turkey as if it is a 3rd world country, placed forgotten part of the world such as New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay,... WWII's exile Jewish proffessors helped to create better university system in Turkey, especially in medicine. Thus,Turkish doctors are convenient to German health system and we might see more Turkish doctors in Germany but the best ones will still work in Turkey/UK/USA (see Nobel laurate Dr.Sancar or UNC, or showperson Dr.Oz). The reason is the openness of the society, you can see a Turkish CEO of Rolls-Royce(Tufan) or CEO/Chairman of Coca-Cola (Muhtar) but it is very unlikely you can see a Turkish head of Bayer,BMW,Daimler (oh, a recent head was Turkish born German). Turkish Germans is a lost case both for Turkey and Germany. They are neither Turk nor German (culturally) and it is better to accept this.
Back in the '60s Germany was still suffering from the effects of WW2. Their population was too old for menial labor; therefore they imported Turks for minimum wage jobs as gastarbeiter (guest worker). Most of these Turks hadn't even been to a big city before! Some of these Turks were intelligent and adaptable; they wanted to progress professionally, and they did. (A jump in 15 years from sweeping floors in a Mercedes factory with no knowledge of German whatsoever to retiring as foreman in the same factory with 25-30 people working under you is what I call a very good career.) Some didn't really care what they did long as those Deutsche Marks (of yore; now there's the Euro) were rolling in. These ones didn't even bother to learn more German than necessary. They created their own neighborhoods, communities kept within themselves, and stuck to the traditions and rules of the old country. (As for their general character, let me just say the majority among them vote left in elections in Germany, because of more rights to and tolerance towards immigrants, and right in Turkey because the Euros they earn are worth much more back in their homeland. Despicable, I know...) Add that all of these workers were Muslim, and you can see how difficult it was to assimilate these people into the German culture. (I'm not going into the details of the degrees of racism - and xenophobia - these people were faced with. Let's just say the n-word in German is "kanake".) Then came the second generation... Oh, boy! I could recommend some movies about those - and later - times! (See any similarities with African-American history?) Now migrating to Britain got more popular in the 1980s, after the military coup in Turkey. Most of the Turks who migrated to Britain didn't have that big of a language barrier since the majority among them were university students and scholars trying to avoid the heavy penalties for being left-wing intellectuals or activists. Most of them came from big cities, which made their assimilation very easy compared to the Turks in Germany. The second generation in Britain, especially England, were more educated than those in Germany and faced with less xenophobia, they embraced the British citizenship (and opportunities thereof) happily. I could go on, but I guess this is enough basketball & Alpi talk for now.
I read Philosophy at King's. Wonderful place for Academic pursuits, but I found the city boring as all hell if I'm honest (I'm from and based in Manchester.)
As I posted before Alp was a 35-45 top NBA player before the season. But I would rank 20-30 in current situation. Ranking Alp behind Desmond Bane/Evan Mobley is not normal. Would you swap Alp with either of them? A certain NO. How you rank them before Alp then? Edit: Alp jumped from 97 to 42. 55 increase. It shows lack of evaluation/ignorance. It means that they underrated him before. Thus they could not put him in top 25. Wondering ESPN idiots's next ranking.
