![Erdogan's AKP party actively engaged with the Turkish diaspora, including Turkish-Germans, during the election campaign in Turkey.](https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/erdogan-turkey-election-diaspora-turkish-germans-akp-06072023-1.jpg?w=519&h=259&crop=1)
In his election victory last month, Turkish President Erdogan won an overwhelming majority among Turkish-German diaspora voters. That support, and the reaction to it among German media and political parties, highlights the growing role that Turkish-Germans and Kurdish-Germans have begun to play in German domestic politics.