Turkish interior minister Süleyman Soylu told his German counterpart in a telephone call on July 24 that Ankara's submission of the list through Interpol stemmed from "a communications problem," spokesman Tobias Plate told a regular government news conference.
"(The interior minister) underscored that there were no investigations against German firms by Turkish authorities in Turkey or in Germany," Plate said.
A spokeswoman for the economy ministry told reporters that further measures regarding Turkey were still being examined.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had refuted claims that German companies were under investigation in Turkey.
“I have asked [the issue] to our National Intelligence Organization [MİT] and our Interior Ministry. There isn’t any investigation or inspection on any German companies. These are all lies,” Erdoğan said on July 21.