09/15/2025September 15, 2025
Dobrindt: Germany in talks with Taliban for ‘regular’ deportations
has confirmed that talks are underway with the Taliban to deport Afghan nationals who were convicted of crimes from Germany.
“We want to make deportations possible on our own. And that is why we are maintaining technical contacts between colleagues from the Interior Ministry and representatives from Afghanistan,” he said.
“And these technical contacts should ultimately lead to us being able to deport people to Afghanistan on a regular basis,” Dobrindt added.
Separately, German Foreign Minister Wadephul Johann Wadephul also confirmed that talks about deportations were taking place in Doha — but signalled that he did not see meetings in Kabul as necessary.
In July, Germany flew 81 Afghans who had been convicted of crimes to Afghanistan.
Why is the move controversial?
The Taliban took over Afghanistan’s government in August 2021 following the NATO withdrawal. Since then, Germany has not had official diplomatic , which it did not recognize as legitimate.
Marcel Emmerich, the Green Party’s domestic policy spokesman, has called it a scandal.
“The public has a right to know what the terrorists are getting in return. Dobrindt is making himself dependent on an Islamist organization and is reducing security in the country,” he told the Tagesspiegel newspaper.
With the rise of the far right in Germany, migration was a central topic in the CSU and CDU’s election campaign in the February general election.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz has vowed to Afghanistan and Syria, and suspend asylum admission programs for German agencies’ former local staff in Afghanistan.
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