Federal Ministry of the Interior: Negotiations with Taliban on deportations in Kabul

According to Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, the federal government begins talks about deportations from Germany with the Taliban government in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul. “Deportations to Afghanistan must be able to take place regularly! We are now negotiating directly in Kabul so that criminals and dangers will be deported consistently in the future,” said the CSU politician of the “Bild am Sonntag”.

In October, officials from the Federal Ministry of the Interior are to travel to Kabul to negotiate deportations with those responsible for the Islamist Taliban, as a ministry spokesman for the newspaper confirmed.

Two weeks ago, Dobrindt said that he would assume that there would soon be talks in Kabul. Until then, there was talk of conversations “at a technical level with Afghan representatives” – without precise information where they are conducted.

Officially no diplomatic relationships

The contacts with the Taliban are controversial, because the federal government officially does not maintain diplomatic relations with the Islamists, who have been back in power in Afghanistan since August 2021. Because of their disregard for human and especially women’s rights, they are internationally isolated.

Since the Taliban’s takeover in Kabul in August 2021, Katar has been deported by Afghans from Germany. In August 2024 – at that time the coalition of the SPD, the Greens and the FDP – 28 convicted offenders were brought to the Afghan capital.

In July, an aircraft brought 81 men to Afghanistan, who, according to the countries, had appeared with killing offenses, sex crimes, acts of violence and drug offenses.