The repatriation of bodies to their country of origin after death, a practice often exercised among minorities originating from Turkey in Europe, relates not only to the attachment to roots and to family but also to the European Islam debate. Within the current context, collective memory and its intergenerational transmission within a Muslim minority group are crystallised in, and maintained through, the treatment of the deceased's body and funerary rituals in a secularised mortuary space in Europe. This article aims to analyse the role of death in the construction of diasporic Muslim subjectivity in Europe and to address questions concerning the experience of death through a case study of minorities originating from Turkey in France and in Germany.
