New agreement

Berlin wants to deport hundreds of Turks per week

According to media reports, Germany has begun newly negotiated deportations to Turkey. For the time being, a total of 200 Turks are to be returned to their home country. The repatriation is to be handled decentrally via scheduled flights.

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) announced the consistent deportation of irregular migrants to Turkey in an interview. "We have now achieved that repatriations to Turkey can take place more quickly and effectively and that Turkey will take back citizens who are not allowed to stay in Germany more quickly," Faeser told the Funke Mediengruppe newspapers. She spoke of "great progress" and a "further building block in limiting irregular migration".

Unlike previous migration agreements with Uzbekistan or Kenya, for example, the returns to Turkey could involve large-scale deportations.

Hundreds of deportations per week?
According to an answer from the German government to a question from the AfD in March, almost 1,300 Turkish citizens were deported from Germany in 2023. According to figures from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, around 14,500 Turks in Germany were required to leave the country at the end of April 2024.

According to the FAZ, Ankara has offered to take back up to 500 citizens per week. Corresponding preparations are already underway.