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Jul 20, 2008

Turkey: Kurdish rebels release German captives

Turkish officials say Kurdish rebels have released three Germans taken captive more than a week ago in eastern Turkey.

Turkey's Foreign Ministry says the Germans are in good condition. Officials say Foreign Minister Ali Babacan called German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday morning to let him know the hostages were freed.

The Germans were seized from Mount Ararat on July 8, reportedly to protest a German crackdown on groups that support Kurdish rebels.

Rebels from the Kurdistan Workers' Party have been battling for decades for self-rule in Turkey's southeast.

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Ali T

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Jul 20, 2008
 
i told you..the germans were too boring even as hostages...after all Kurds like music,folk dancing,good tasty food but germans all foreign to all that..so it could never work!.

if they had jamaicans as their captives,then they`d still be there ,partying,getting stoned in the mountains on ganja and basically the adventure would have lasted months if not years...maybe next time..

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Jul 20, 2008
 
Ali T wrote:
i told you..the germans were too boring even as hostages...after all Kurds like music,folk dancing,good tasty food but germans all foreign to all that..so it could never work!.
if they had jamaicans as their captives,then they`d still be there ,partying,getting stoned in the mountains on ganja and basically the adventure would have lasted months if not years...maybe next time..
probably pissed the kurds of by getting up at six in the morning and putting their beach towels out before the kurds got up!
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Jul 21, 2008
 
attilla the turd wrote:
<quoted text>probably pissed the kurds of by getting up at six in the morning and putting their beach towels out before the kurds got up!
yeah..lol...!!!
..in their case it would have been nylon sheeting on the frosted mountain side..

maybe the germans really felt at home and didn`t even want to leave but forced by the kurds themselves??

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Jul 21, 2008
 
Ali T wrote:
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yeah..lol...!!!
..in their case it would have been nylon sheeting on the frosted mountain side..
maybe the germans really felt at home and didn`t even want to leave but forced by the kurds themselves??
i,ve seen what the germans are like when i went to majorca 4 years ago beleive me it,s true they do! so being naughty that we was we got up early one morning and tipped the whole gerry,s towels in the ponds and it was the gerrys towels because we was sat their in the afternoon doing a reconissance mission!
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Jul 21, 2008
 
A&#287;r&#305; Valisi: "PKK 3 Alman da&#287;c&#305;y&# 305; b&#305;rakmak zorunda kald&#305;"

A&#287;r&#305; Valisi Mehmet Çetin, güvenlik kuvvetlerinin alm&#305;&#351; oldu&#287;u yo&#287;un önlemleri geçemeyen terör örgütü PKK mensuplar&#305;n&#305; n, 8 Temmuz gecesi A&#287;r&#305; Da&#287;&#305;'ndaki kamp yerinden kaç&#305;rd&#305;klar &#305; 3 Alman da&#287;c&#305;y&# 305; serbest b&#305;rakmak zorunda kald&#305;klar&#305;n &#305; aç&#305;klad&#305;.

Çetin, Do&#287;ubayaz&#305;t Kaymakaml&#305;&#287; &#305;'nda yapt&#305;&#287;&# 305; aç&#305;klamada, 8 Temmuz'da A&#287;r&#305; Da&#287;&#305; bölgesindeki 3 bin metre yüksekli&#287;indeki kamp yerinden kaç&#305;r&#305;lan 3 Alman da&#287;c&#305;n&# 305;n bugün itibariyle serbest b&#305;rak&#305;ld &#305;&#287;&#305; n&#305; söyledi.

Kö&#351;eye s&#305;k&#305;&#35 1;an terör örgütü PKK mensuplar&#305;n&#305; n, güvenlik kuvvetlerinin alm&#305;&#351; oldu&#287;u yo&#287;un güvenlik önlemlerini geçemedi&#287;ini vurgulayan Çetin, terör örgütü mensuplar&#305;n&#305; n Alman turistleri serbest b&#305;rakmak zorunda kald&#305;&#287;&# 305;n&#305; ifade etti.
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Jul 21, 2008
 
attilla the turd wrote:
<quoted text>i,ve seen what the germans are like when i went to majorca 4 years ago beleive me it,s true they do! so being naughty that we was we got up early one morning and tipped the whole gerry,s towels in the ponds and it was the gerrys towels because we was sat their in the afternoon doing a reconissance mission!
wow..you should work for the intelligence services!!!
yes it is well-known fact about germans and their beach towels,that actually never see the beach except the deck chairs ...german efficiency and ignorance at its best..maybe they still think they are the master race in the EU...but we know better don`t we??

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Jul 22, 2008
 
Ali T wrote:
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wow..you should work for the intelligence services!!!
yes it is well-known fact about germans and their beach towels,that actually never see the beach except the deck chairs ...german efficiency and ignorance at its best..maybe they still think they are the master race in the EU...but we know better don`t we??
you see the german families are very regimental get up at the crack of dawn sit in complex listening to club reps putting on some poor piss pot show have dinner by eight in bed by 12 whilst us on the other hand get up at 10 breakfast with a beer bit of sun tanning a sleep for a couple of hours wake up have dinner at 8 with the germans finish dinner by 9 out on the lash till early hours of morning around the local bars roll in at 4 -5 in morning and start over again the next day! my you it did not help relations between us and gerrys when we rolled in one morning and who else but me gets up on the reps stage and starts singing hitler songs did not go down to well next morning we all got a lecture and a severe bollicking for upsetting the germans miserable sods!

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Jul 22, 2008
 
I don,t trust Germans,maybe they were pro-pkk supporters or agents.
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attilla the turd wrote:
<quoted text>you see the german families are very regimental get up at the crack of dawn sit in complex listening to club reps putting on some poor piss pot show have dinner by eight in bed by 12 whilst us on the other hand get up at 10 breakfast with a beer bit of sun tanning a sleep for a couple of hours wake up have dinner at 8 with the germans finish dinner by 9 out on the lash till early hours of morning around the local bars roll in at 4 -5 in morning and start over again the next day! my you it did not help relations between us and gerrys when we rolled in one morning and who else but me gets up on the reps stage and starts singing hitler songs did not go down to well next morning we all got a lecture and a severe bollicking for upsetting the germans miserable sods!
fcuking hell!! what did you expect/ medals..i bet you disrupted the entire two weeks in the sun along with the gerry community,pissed them all off,and wonder when you come back in here as to why the gerries hate us lock stock and barrel!!
mind you we wouldn`t have it any other way would we pal?
anyway Forest should do v well this year,since i was there on the trent end all of the 70s!!!

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Jul 22, 2008
 
Ali T wrote:
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fcuking hell!! what did you expect/ medals..i bet you disrupted the entire two weeks in the sun along with the gerry community,pissed them all off,and wonder when you come back in here as to why the gerries hate us lock stock and barrel!!
mind you we wouldn`t have it any other way would we pal?
anyway Forest should do v well this year,since i was there on the trent end all of the 70s!!!
no not expect medals just enjoyed upsetting the bosch! forest yep i was their in the trent end very late 70,s on and of through out the 80,s and 90,s relegation from premier to the championship pissed me of because they put the prices up same when we went down to the co-ca cola league one won,t pay nearly 30 quid to watch league 1 shite anyway derby can,t wait! leicester he he he he! mk dons first match of their season ! going back to the german saga one or two of them actually came over and said you must be brits why we asked because you have just livened up the complex every body was talkng about us even the locals it was only 1 week but we made sure we enjoyed it!
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Jul 23, 2008
 
attilla the turd wrote:
<quoted text>no not expect medals just enjoyed upsetting the bosch! forest yep i was their in the trent end very late 70,s on and of through out the 80,s and 90,s relegation from premier to the championship pissed me of because they put the prices up same when we went down to the co-ca cola league one won,t pay nearly 30 quid to watch league 1 shite anyway derby can,t wait! leicester he he he he! mk dons first match of their season ! going back to the german saga one or two of them actually came over and said you must be brits why we asked because you have just livened up the complex every body was talkng about us even the locals it was only 1 week but we made sure we enjoyed it!
as long as they didnt come over in their thousands and tried to invade your privacy with a blitzkrieg!!!
at least you showed them that military efficiency should be abondened when on holiday..well done!!..so what`s next?Bierkeller in Nuremberg,or fashing in Cologne??

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Ali T wrote:
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as long as they didnt come over in their thousands and tried to invade your privacy with a blitzkrieg!!!
at least you showed them that military efficiency should be abondened when on holiday..well done!!..so what`s next?Bierkeller in Nuremberg,or fashing in Cologne??
been germany itself a couple of times yes seen nuremberg also munchen stuttgart not bad went to munich in 96 uefa cup quarter final b munich v forest the germans were a bit wary of us not much trouble a few souvenior stands got set alight after the game but we just invaded their beer kellors they did not know what hit them german footy fans seem to cover themselves in badges and football scarves !

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Jul 23, 2008
 
Turkish and Kurdish people are sick of western countries dirty Games over Turkey and middle east, Turks and Kurds have been living to gather for more than 1000 thousand years,
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Turkish and Kurdish people are sick of western countries dirty Games over Turkey and middle east, Turks and Kurds have been living to gather for more than 1000 thousand years,
most of us alreasdy know this.

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Jul 24, 2008
 
Ali T wrote:
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most of us alreasdy know this.
Aferim.
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Jul 24, 2008
 
Milky way - Sydney wrote:
<quoted text>Aferim.
no need for aferins..no kurd can ever be my enemy as all our grandparents fought for this land,died together and now eternally sleeping side by side..how else can anybody think?

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Jul 25, 2008
 
Ali T wrote:
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no need for aferins..no kurd can ever be my enemy as all our grandparents fought for this land,died together and now eternally sleeping side by side..how else can anybody think?
than good boy
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Jul 25, 2008
 
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<quoted text>than good boy
good boy?? try good agabey!!
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Oct 3, 2008
 
Ali T wrote:
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wow..you should work for the intelligence services!!!
yes it is well-known fact about germans and their beach towels,that actually never see the beach except the deck chairs ...german efficiency and ignorance at its best..maybe they still think they are the master race in the EU...but we know better don`t we??
So know you are a expert on Germany and Germans...I again see thatjealousy factor ...A lot of Turks woyldnt have jobs,if it werent for the Germans remember that...And the least think you can prove about Germans or the beach towels.THan you must be not very clever aaaand very depp.
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attilla the turd wrote:
<quoted text>been germany itself a couple of times yes seen nuremberg also munchen stuttgart not bad went to munich in 96 uefa cup quarter final b munich v forest the germans were a bit wary of us not much trouble a few souvenior stands got set alight after the game but we just invaded their beer kellors they did not know what hit them german footy fans seem to cover themselves in badges and football scarves !
You cant even compose anything.
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