The European Commission is urgently calling on the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, to immediately release three German mountain climbers taken hostage in Turkey a week-and-a half ago. Vice President Gьnter Verheugen said innocent mountain climbers have become hostages in an armed conflict, adding that the PKK, is doing much harm to the interests of the Kurdish people.
Verheugen stressed that terrorist tactics will not solve the PKK's conflict with Turkey. The three men were taken hostage on July 8 while they were climbing Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey.
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