But the immigrants have been mostly poor peasants from Anatolia, whose integration has proven to be difficult. By contrast, Turkey’s large, secular intellectual community, whose cultural background is European, and from which the Turkish state recruits most of its executives, has remained in Istanbul and Ankara.
的确，一些欧洲国家，主要是德国和奥地利，欢迎土耳其移民的大量涌入。但是，移民中的大多数是安纳托利亚的贫穷农民。他们很难融入欧洲社会。相反，土耳其庞大的、世俗化的知识阶层的文化背景是欧洲化的，土耳其国家从中招募其大部分行政管理人员。这些人则留在了伊斯坦布尔和安卡拉。