The German government did not disclose the two-day visit by the Federal Prosecutor Peter Frank to Turkey recently and his meeting with Turkish President Erdoğan.
German Federal Prosecutor General Peter Frank made a remarkable visit to Turkey between 5 and 7 July 2022. Frank, who went to Turkey at the invitation of the Turkish State’s Supreme Court Chief Prosecutor Bekir Şahin, held a series of meetings with Turkish state officials, including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of the Court of Cassation Mehmet Akarca and Minister of Justice Bekir Bozdağ.
However, 10 days after the visit, no statement has officially been made about it. One of Germany's opposition parties, Left Party Deputy Clara Bünger, brought this visit, whose content was hidden from the public, to the agenda of the Bundestag, and tabled a short question for the government demanding an explanation.
‘We have no obligation to explain why we hold such meetings’
However, the Federal Government under Olof Scholz did not reveal the content of the Federal Prosecutor's visit to Turkey in its response to the parliamentary question. The government said that it has no obligation to disclose the content of all of the meetings with international partners and stated that Frank's visit to Turkey falls into this category.
The visit of the Federal Prosecutor General, which the German government did not disclose as a "state secret", was harshly criticized by human rights defenders in Germany in the past few days.
The media close to the AKP-MHP, on the other hand, wrote that Turkey gave a list of 129 people, including of people it wanted from Germany, to the Federal Prosecutor General Frank.
