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 weekly, however, the Chancellor reiterated that her government could not be blackmailed. Kurdish militants seized the three mountaineers on Tuesday while 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 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.
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