Denizkurdu made this announcement yesterday in Strasbourg, where he is attending the inauguration of the new judiciary term of the European Court of Human Rights. Meanwhile, according to the German newspaper Bild, German officials will not extradite the fundamentalist terrorist Metin Kaplan to Turkey. The paper quoted the words of Interior Minister of North-Rhein Westphalen Province, Franz Knola saying that although Germany would like to extradite the terrorist to Turkey, it was not possible at the moment because of the death sentence punishment in Turkey. German goverment speaker, Uwe Karsten Heye also said that the German administration had asked the Turkish Foreign Ministry for detailed information which would prove Metin Kaplan's destructive activities in Turkey against the present structure of the Republic of Turkey, and they would take the necessary steps to resolve the issue. Talking to reporters after his meeting with Barzani, Yilmaz repeated that Turkey's exclusion from the Washington talks was a diplomatic mistake.
Turkey is the country which is the most sensitive to the developments in northern Iraq.
Steps are now being taken to ease misunderstandings. Both Yilmaz and Ecevit stressed the importance of security cooperation between Turkey and Iraqi Kurdish groups against the PKK terrorist organization in this post-Syrian crisis period. Celebi said the number of free zones operating in Turkey had been raised from nine to 14. Burghagen said the Euro would have a great impact on Turkey, because a large part of its trade takes place with the EU countries. The First Animal Husbandry Convention began yesterday in Ankara.