Turkish Germans fear AfD surge will threaten communities and democracy

In the aftermath of the AfD's commanding 43.8 percent victory in Saxony-Anhalt's state election, Germany's Turkish community finds itself weighing an ancient and painful question: whether a place that once offered belonging can still be trusted to do so. The result has stirred not only fear among migrants and business owners in the east, but a deeper reckoning about the health of German democracy itself — one that community leaders insist cannot be reduced to an immigration dispute alone. As initial panic gives way to cautious observation, the harder work of understanding what conditions allow