Mehmet Çakaş, a Kurdish activist convicted of spreading propaganda for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) between 2019 and 2021, faces possible deportation before the end of his sentence despite a 2023 German federal justice ministry ruling that returning him to Turkey would expose him to political persecution.  The justice ministry’s decision had followed Turkey’s issuance … Continue reading Germany set to deport Kurdish activist Mehmet Çakaş despite justice ministry’s previous decision