08/07/2010 19:28
Turks rated 2nd foreigners naturalized as Europeans
According Turkish newspaper Jumhurriyet’s article, Turkish are rated the second foreigners after Moroccans who are being naturalized as citizens of the European countries.
The Eurostatistics reported that 49,546 Turks and 63,823 Moroccans were naturalized as the Europeans in 2008.
In particularly, during a year some 24,499 Turks obtained citizenship of Germany, 10 202 – France; 4,640 – UK; 3,147 – Netherlands; 1,664 – Austria; 1,125 – Sweden; 588 – Denmark; 299 – Italy; 212 – Greece; 195 – Finland; 54 – Romania; 36 – Poland; 29 – Bulgaria; and Spain - 24 .
In addition, 2,866 Turks were naturalized as citizens of Switzerland (not a EU state); and there are not statistics about Belgium.