There are approximately 30 000 people with Turkish heritage in Sweden, where half of these are youths between 7-25 year of age. The majority immigrated to Sweden at the 60-70ies in the hope of gathering enough money to one day move back to Turkey. However the third generations of Turkish youths are now starting to grow up in Sweden. The social- and working climate is no longer the same as in past; the situation has been both for the better and worse. In the past there were plenty of jobs, where there now is a shortage of these. Nevertheless this has given the people a higher urge to further educate themselves; the increase can be seen on the today’s youths.

Turkish Youth Federeation (TUF) was founded 1083 as a committee under The Turkish national association (TRF) with the purpose of gathering the Turkish youth under one roof. 1995 TUF separated themselves and became a self sustaining association witch today (2006) consists of 7 000 members and 30 association from 8 regions; Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Västerås Varberg, Gävle, Norrköping, Uppsala and Eskilstuna.