Tina De Gendt (°1982) is a freelance journalist (a.o. De Morgen, Psychologies) historian and city guide in Ghent.

Basic information

Name
Tina De Gendt
Expertise
Ghent, Migration
Country
Belgium
City
Gent
Website

Supported projects

Turkish people in Belgium

  • Human Rights

BELGIUM - In 2014 it will be exactly fifty years ago that the first Turkish labour migrants arrived in Ghent to work in the defunct textile factories. Today, more than 20,000 inhabitants of Ghent (about one in twelve) have their roots in Turkey. How Ghent became a small 'Turkey on the Leie' in half a century is the central question in this book about the people behind those numbers.