!!!Türken

Turks: From the 1960s onwards Turkish migrants came to Austria to find 
employment here. Around 118,000 Turks were living in Austria in 1991, 
6,200 Austrians gave Turkish as their first language. 90% of the Turks 
are Muslims, mainly Sunnites belonging to the school of law of 
Hanafis. The majority of the Turks living in Austria are between 20 
and 40 years old, 40% are women. The life of Turks in Austria is 
strongly influenced by Turkish culture, but their way of living 
depends on whether they come from rural areas or big cities, and on 
the religious, political and ethnic group they belong to. There are 
many racially, culturally and religious distinct groups and several 
ethnic and religious minorities (e.g. the Kurds of Anatolia and the 
Alevites). The Turks in Austria speak New (Ottoman) Turkish 
(introduced in 1923).

!Literature
P. L. Martin, The Unfinished Story: Turkish Labour 
Migration to Western Europe, 1991; S. Balic, Der Islam - 
Europakonform?, 1994; C. Parnreiter, Migration und Arbeitsteilung, 
1994.


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