Kurnaz said she remained grateful to the former German chancellor Angela Merkel, under whose tenure Murat was released.
Kurnaz, however, also places blame for her son’s ordeal with the country she has lived in since she was 14.
In 2007, Steinmeier denied there had been an “official offer” from the US, while stating it was right to consider the Guantánamo detainee a security risk at the time.
“Because they rejected our laws, the argument went, they did not deserve the protection of our legal system either.”