Policy. In addition, she is a member of the Art Advisory Board of the German Bundestag. In the unsuccessful negotiations to form a coalition government with the Christian Democrats – both the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) – and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2017 national elections, Roth was part of the 14-member delegation of the Green Party. In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democrats (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 federal elections, she led her party's delegation in the working group on cultural affairs and media; her co-chairs from the other parties are Carsten Brosda and Otto Fricke. Political career 1985–1989: Press spokeswoman for the Green party of West Germany 1985–1998: Member of the European Parliament (Chairwoman of the Green Party faction from 1994 to 1998) 1998 – March 2001: Member of the Green Party faction in the German Parliament (Bundestag) Chairwoman of the Human Rights Board in the German Parliament March 2001 – December 2002: Chairwoman of the German Green Party (together with Fritz Kuhn) 22 September 2002 – present: Member of the Green Party faction in the Bundestag October 2004 – October 2013: Chairwoman of the German Green Party (together with Reinhard Bütikofer until 2008, then Cem Özdemir) 22 October 2013 – present: Vice president of the Bundestag Political positions On Turkey Since her time at the European Parliament, Roth has regularly criticized the European Union's "determination to hold Turkey at bay." In 1995, she expressed doubts about Prime Minister Tansu Çiller's ability to bring about human rights reforms as a condition for a European Union–Turkey Customs Union. In June 2013, Roth was at the surroundings of the Taksim Square when the police intervened to evacuate Gezi Park and was among those affected by the tear gas fired by security officers. Following the victory of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the 2014 presidential election, she criticized the "dramatic erosion of the democratic system in Turkey." In May 2017, Roth canceled a visit of a parliamentary delegation to Turkey where participants had planned to talk to opposition lawmakers, governors and rights groups about that year's constitutional referendum, saying Ankara had refused to give them a security detail. On right-wing extremism On Friday 17 March 2006, Roth reported herself to the German police for displaying a crossed-out swastika on multiple