[4] Devoted to lyricism, one of her most notable poems, "Mein Name ist Ausländer" (My name is foreigner), was published in Turkish school books.
The public self-immolation occurred in the early morning hours at the intersection of Simon-von-Utrecht-Strasse and Detlef-Bremer-Straße in Hamburg's St. Pauli quarter.
[3] Coincidentally, a police unit was marching past the marketplace at the time and attempted to smother the flames with blankets.
With unemployment and housing shortages in Germany, migrant workers were increasingly seen by Germans as competitors to the workplace and living space.
[9] German investigative journalist Günter Wallraff dedicated his 1985 book Ganz unten (The Lowest of the Low), which examined his experience posing as a Turkish guest worker in Germany,[10] inter alia, to Semra Ertan.