" Figures do not lie: two-thirds of Turks in Belgium marry a person living in Turkey . But the immigration through marriage is not a phenomenon limited to the Turkish community. Two-thirds of Belgians of Moroccan descent also marry someone with the country of origin ", announces the release of VRT (chain Flemish public) which sent a team of journalists for 5 weeks Emirdag (Turkey) to track marriages of the summer. The story of 43 minutes will be broadcast this Sunday (09/23/2007 20:00) on the public broadcaster in the Flemish part of the Panorama program . Wim Van den Eynde, Jan Puype and Sunbul Karakaya and have spent 5 weeks in this small town in Anatolia in order to understand the reasons why 2 out of 3 Belgian-Turkish absolutely want to marry a girl or a boy living in District Emirdag (2714 km ², 1 center, 4 municipalities and 70 villages).
" The girls come here, they go to dance halls, they almost all a boyfriend, "said Abla in the story, a mother of 4 boys living in Ghent, suggesting a negative girls of Turkish origin in Belgium. Notice that seem to share these 4 son. Abla therefore share in the small town in central Anatolia in search of the ideal daughter-in [read: subjected to in-laws] that it intends to marry his eldest son Davut. A case that is far be isolated because much of the Turks from Belgium made the same journey during the summer holidays.
The story evokes neither the problem of marriages [A simulated marriage in order to obtain the right of residence in Belgium], nor for benefit recipients with luxury goods in Turkey. " We purposely chosen to overlook these issues because the objective was to understand the logic of true Belgian-Turkish mixed marriages whose functioning is incomprehensible for the public Flemish ," explains Sunbul Karakaya, ex- Parliamentary attached Fatma Pehlivan (SP.A) and current project coordinator Savma . "The border between marriages and arranged marriages is unclear. Marriage arranged by a parent or an intermediary, called in Turkish 'görücü usülü' [Pron is Ounce: gueurudju ousulu] is a very common practice in the mentality of people Emirdag. These are real marriages prepared and organized by families but with the possibility left to the girl or the boy to say 'no'. There are really love stories by sms or phone for girls living in Belgium and who have never experienced a little romance in their lives. The atmosphere is very special there, so that even those who may not have the idea of getting married back in Belgium, almost unwittingly, after contracting a marriage. It is difficult to tell people to stop these practices, which very often cause huge problems of integration, for both families, after arrival in Belgium. It's simple, a girl in a village Emirdag has no prospect of development. She dreams of getting married so you can eat in a restaurant with her husband or a walk in the park, things that we may seem very simple but represent a dream for those girls who live in an essentially rural environment. The stepmother is hoping to brag to his surroundings by working his stepdaughter in the household and the groom will be happy to continue his life as a young boy with his friends because the family cares for his wife. I caricature of course but the general idea is this. "
Sunbul I also asked if the crew had difficulty turning" Yes because people are very suspicious. Some feared that because of the report, the embassy could delay the issuance of the visa or that the Belgian authorities could cut unemployment benefits after seeing the houses. We made it clear that our goal was not to put people in trouble but to explain the phénomère migration by family reunification. In any case, Emirdag authorities gave us permission to shoot. We had over 100 minutes of rush and it is difficult to talk about anything in a report of 45 minutes. It is true that a family was angry against us when she heard comments from people in Turkey compared to those who already live in Belgium but keep in mind that everyone tries to play its role better deal to the camera. The program is fully subtitled in Dutch, but the people speak French, Turkish and Dutch in the report "concludes the collaborator of VRT.
This report is to be compared with the Literature 32 minutes from the Belgian-Turkish filmmaker Mustafa Balci, Marriage, roundtrip (2006), which already indicated that " back in Brussels, young couples are breaking up ... .
to see so this Sunday, 09/23/2007 on the TRV: Panorama program at 20:00 Een visum als bruidsschat [ A visa as dowry ], a 43-minute documentary directed by Wim Van den Eynde, January Puype Sunbul and Karakaya.
[UPDATE]: see report on internet
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