Posted on 07/09/2008 8:39:55 AM PDT by Siberian-psycho
Three German mountaineers were kidnapped by terrorists in Turkey's eastern province of Agri, the state-run Anatolian Agency reported Wednesday quoting the governor. (UPDATED)
PKK terrorists seized the climbers, part of a group of 13 mountaineers, as they were ascending the mountain in Agri province, provincial governor Mehmet Cetin told the AA.
"The terrorists said they carried out this action because of the German government's recent moves against PKK associations and sympathizers," the Anatolian Agency reported the Governor Mehmet Cetin as saying.
Cetin said the terrorists kidnapped the three late on Tuesday, adding the gendarmerie had launched a wide-scale search and rescue operation, and the other mountaineers were brought to Agri's Dogubayazit town.
The governor said the climbers had arrived in the region three days ago and had established a camp at a height of 3,200 meters (10,500 feet) on Mount Ararat. Five PKK militants approached the camp and kidnapped three people, he said.
The PKK is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey as well as the majority of the international community including the United States and the European Union.
Mount Ararat, situated close to the Iranian and Armenian borders, is the highest mountain in Turkey at 5,137 meters (16,853 feet) and is believed by many to be the final resting place of the Biblical Noah's Ark.
With the terrorist attack in Ankara, the growing Islamist movement, the PKK, you’re right.
Things are heating up in the area, reminds me of the days preceeding 9-11-01.
I just can’t believe that Lutherans would take innocent German hostages like that because someone said something or did something that offended them... /S
Sure, Barry. You, if anyone, should know it’s just a religion of peas, not violins.
Note to self:
Cancel summer mountaineerng trip in Turkey’s eastern province of Agri.
PKK doing what ever they can to prove they are what people say they are.
If they were different kinds of people, they’d come into the mountaneers’ camp, share some tea, make nice, and then as they leave reveal their identities as PKK saying, “we’re not as bad as people say we are...”
But, no, they kidnap innocents, thus proving again that they indeed are what people say they are.
Not a lot of rationality there is there?
Didn’t the PKK have their HQ in Germany back in the 80s? Wupertal (sp?) or something - it had a monorail.
Of all the places in the world one can go mountaineering....
Yeah sorry Instanbul.
Germans getting hijacked by PKK? How romantic for them. Really, I mean it!
http://id.karlmay.wikia.com/wiki/Durchs_Wilde_Kurdistan_(en)
No offense, but the link is to a site in indonesian, I have no idea what it says...
cheers
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