Justice Minister Heiko Maas, said in a statement that he and Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière had struck a deal on a draft law which would create a path to dual citizenship for thousands more people.
President of the Turkish Community in Germany, Kenan Kolat, said in an open letter that “legal insecurity and inequality remain”.
“Those affected will have to go through a complicated process in the future that threatens them with the loss or withdrawal of German citizenship," he wrote.
He added that thousands of Turks would still have to choose between German and Turkish citizenship which threatened the integration process and “contradicted” Germany’s image of a “modern immigrant society”.
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