EFL--Read the rest at the link. Interior Minister Schily is taking terrorism and militant Islam more seriously than Schröder or Fischer...
German Interior Minister Otto Schily was in Ankara on Tuesday to seek ways to extradite a militant Islamist from Germany to Turkey but said there were still obstacles to handing him over to Turkish officials. "Some questions still need to be solved," Schily told reporters after a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Abdulkadir Aksu. A court in Cologne last month ruled against a German government request to extradite Kaplan saying that it feared he would not receive a fair trial. Turkey wants to try Metin Kaplan, the leader of the banned Kalifatstaat (Caliphate State) on charges of high treason over a 1998 plot to fly a light plane full of explosives into the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the secular Turkish state. Kaplan has served a four-year prison term in Germany for the murder of a rival Islamist leader. He was released in May but must report regularly to police. |