Germany’s Dual-Citizenship Reform Creates Pathway for Islamist Party
A German government plan to ease citizenship requirements for millions of Turkish immigrants could lead to the creation of Germany’s first national Islamist party, German lawmakers are warning.
Germany’s Dual-Citizenship Reform Creates Pathway for Islamist Party
Soeren Kern | Focus on Western Islamism | January 17, 2024
A German government plan to ease citizenship requirements for millions of Turkish immigrants could lead to the creation of Germany’s first national Islamist party, German lawmakers are warning. Such a party, they say, would be controlled by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and allow him to extend his already considerable influence in Germany into the Bundestag, the federal parliament.
The so-called Law on Citizenship Reform (Staatsangehörigkeitsreform), approved by the German Cabinet in August 2023, would allow non-EU immigrants to become naturalized German citizens without having to renounce other citizenships or give up their old passports. It would also substantially reduce the time in which immigrants are eligible for German citizenship — from eight years currently to five years, and in some cases, just three years.
