The Real Madrid player was born in Germany and decided to represent Joachim Low's side when he was first given the opportunity to do so 18 months ago, despite interest from Turkey for him to represent his family's home nation.

He has since picked up 19 caps and impressed so much at the World Cup in the summer that he earned a lucrative transfer from Werder Bremen to Madrid, and he says he has no regrets at all about choosing Germany over Turkey.

"For me, there was never an issue of playing for another team other than Germany," he said.

"I was born here, I am happy here and I am proud to play for Germany."

Germany face Turkey in an important Euro 2012 qualifier in Berlin on Friday night.

It will be the two nations' first meeting since Turkey's attempts to lure Ozil into their national team failed and the 22-year-old is looking forward to the occasion, even if he may have to upset his family and friends.

"My family comes from Turkey and I have lots of friends there who call me and are very proud of me," he said.

"They follow what I am doing in Madrid and I am very pleased that they support me.

"That makes me very happy.

"If I were to score a goal, I would spontaneously react and we will have to see what happens."

Ozil is not the only Germany player with foreign origins.

Ten of the side which reached the semi-finals of the World Cup had foreign parentage and captain Philipp Lahm says he is proud to play in such a multi-cultural squad.

"I think our national team reflects our society," he said. "We have lots of migrants living in our country and you could see during the World Cup how excited they all were about our football.

"The national team is a good example for our society."

Lahm plays his club football with one of his opponents this Friday, Hamit Altintop, and the pair yesterday filmed a commercial to be screened on both German and Turkish television promotion Friday's eagerly-anticipated match.

The two Bayern Munich players shared a lot of friendly banter in the advertisement and Lahm hopes the message comes across to the fans at the Olympiastadion.

"Hamit told he about how motivated the Turks are for this game and I told him that it is the same with us," explained the Bayern full-back.

"We know that there will be a lot of Turkey fans in the stadium and it will be tough, but we are hoping for fair play on and off the field.

"We hope that everybody can celebrate together in a footballing festival."

The Olympiastadion has long since been sold out for what could be a pivotal qualifying fixture, with both sides having won their first two qualifying games.

In a bid to prevent a repeat of the scenes the last time Germany hosted Turkey in the capital in 1999, in which over half of the stadium was occupied by Turkey fans, the German Football Association have distributed 25,000 white shirts to its official members to be worn at the game.

The Turkish Football Association have been allocated 15,000 tickets but it is feared that many of the 25,000 tickets which have been on general sale in Germany will have been bought by fans with Turkish nationality or ancestry.