@article{article_223753, title={A Research On The Aspect Of The Social-Economics Characteristics Of The Turkish Population Living In London}, journal={Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi}, volume={20}, year={2015}, author={Erdoğan, Özcan}, abstract={ This study is a summary of an extensive research carried out on behalf of Turkish Republic in uncovering difficulties being experienced by the Turkish population in the UK. After the resarch has been presented to a variety of Ministers and Prime Minister,the new institutions such as Presidency of Immigrant Turks and Relative Communities have been formed, consequently the realization of the Turkish people abroad has been significantly increased. Although figures display some differences, still approximately 7.5 million Turks continue with their lives in Europe in our present day. Despite for the official numbers showing up as 200,000, still a total of close to approximately 400,000 citizens of ours predominantly reside in London in very tight socio-cultural and commercial relations with Turkey acting almost as if one each consular agent. Certainly citizens hail from Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus also is included within this number. Creative, crusader and hard-worker citizens of ours in Britain, thanks to their initiatives, have wended their ways towards a great variety of business lines as restaurants, fish-and-chips, doner-kebabs, cafeterias, supermarkets, cab stands, meat-nourishment and food wholesaling, fast food, imports and exports in our present day as it is exactly the same at each and every corner of Europe. They have succeeded to have a definite voice too all across Britain in some business lines. For instance JJ Food has managed to rank among a few large companies of the entire Britain in the field of fast food. It’s such that approximately 1,200 to 1,300 supermarkets in London and around only are being operated by our citizens. Still Britain-wide approximately close to 15,000 restaurants and kebab houses, cab stands around 70 to 80 especially in northern London, a large number of food wholesalers suppliers to thousands of supermarkets are under management of Turks. A great number of our people work even in construction sector having made a remarkable progress and Turkish construction companies are pushing this market too. First generation citizens of ours having arrived in Britain especially to learn language or to work at the beginning and planned to come back to our country after making some certain amount of savings have reached almost to their ages of retirement, and while the second generation all together with workers, employers, self-employed freelancers, scientists, students, teachers, and athletes holders of indefinite residences all in regions they live have become to be a Turkish entity socio-cultural and economic contributions of whom perceived even more by each passing day. In short, Turks living in Britain are in intense efforts to introduce the socio-cultural values and tourism of our country despite several problems they are actually in and their disregarded state in general. In these circumstances, however, Turks living in Britain could never convert their numerical power to a political power regrettably up till today. Influences and powers of the Jewish society in general within English community life are at indisputable sizes while their number in Britain is more or less as much as Turks. It’s even possible to say that immigrants coming from India, Pakistan and Jamaica and Greeks get much better organized than Turks. Despite a population having reached to 400,000 and favorable examples that we mentioned above, regrettably, voice of Turks continuing with their lives in Britain is not heard as much as other immigrant groups. In reality Britain as being a social welfare state presents an open snack shack to her citizens in which high standard services hold places. Turks in Britain while sticking heart and soul to life by leaving their entire fears, concerns, longing to one side watch a little bit swallowing the services presented on the open snack shack. They can’t avail enough from these services. Problems they actually live within of the Turkish society in London and obstacles in general before their integration with the English society that they live in after all are discussed and solution offers are put forth in this study. Key Words: Londoner Turks, Integration, Immigration, asylum seekers . JEL Codes: J1, J10, J11 ÖZET Rakamlar farklılık göstermekle birlikte bugün yaklaşık 7,5 milyon Türk, Avrupa’da yaşamlarını devam ettirmektedir. Her ne kadar resmi rakamlara 200000 olarak yansımakta ise de yaklaşık 400000’e yakın vatandaşımız da ağırlıklı olarak Londra’da, Türkiye ile çok sıkı sosyo-kültürel ve ticari ilişkiler içinde, sanki her biri birer fahri elçi olarak İngiltere’de ikamet etmektedir. Bu sayıya şüphesiz Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti kökenli vatandaşlarda dahildir. Avrupa’nın}, number={3}, publisher={Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi}