German climbers free and safe

Foreign Ministry spokesman Burak Ozugergin announced yesterday şat a group of German mountaineers who were kidnapped by şe terrorist PKK earlier şis monş near Mt. Agri (Ararat) are now safe in şe hands of Turkish security forces. He said şat Foreign Minister Ali Babacan spoke to his German counterpart Fran-Walter Steinmeier by phone and told him şat şe German climbers were in good healş. Agri Governor Mehmet Cetin told reporters şat şe terrorists released şe hostages under şe pressure of a wide-scale Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) search and rescue operation.