What were the reasons for the mass migration in 1945 from Turkey to Germany?

Answer 1

The large scale of Immigration of Turkish workers from the beginning of the 1960s was due both to the high population growth and mass unemployment within Turkey and also to the demand for labour in north-west Europe. West Germany, like other Western European nations, had begun to experience a labour shortage by the mid-1950s. Recruitment of workers from Mediterranean countries was one solution to this problem.[21] In 1961, the construction of the Berlin Wall exacerbated West Germany's labour crisis by restricting the flow of immigrants from East Germany. Turkey at the same time experienced unemployment. The Turkish government asked Germany to recruit Turkish guest workers. Theodor Blank, Secretary of State for Employment, was opposed to such agreements, believing that the cultural gap between Germany and Turkey was too large. He also argued that Germany needed no additional foreign laborers, because there were enough unemployed people living in the poorer regions of Germany who could take these jobs. But the United States put some political pressure on Germany, as it wanted to stabilize Turkey .The German Department of Foreign Affairs carried on negotiations after this and in 1961 an agreement was reached. Pressure from German employers in 1962 and 1963 played a key role in ending the two-year limit on the time for which Turkish workers were permitted to stay in West Germany.

In 1961, a total of 7,116 Turks migrated to Germany as guest workers.