German Chancellor Angela Merkel has appealed to the kidnappers of three German citizens in Turkey to release them immediately and unharmed.
In an interview with the Bild am Sonntag newspaper, however, the Chancellor reiterated that the federal government could not be blackmailed. Kurdish militants seized the three mountaineers on Tuesday when were climbing Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey. The hostage-takers are demanding that Germany stop cracking down on their organization, the PKK. Turkey and the European Union consider the PKK to be a terrorist group. Earlier, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Global Media Forum in Bonn wraps up second day ...
Global Media Forum continues ... Party offered to mediate efforts to release the hostages. The party has close ties to the separatists and helped secure the release of captured Turkish soldiers last year.
(Deutsche Welle)
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