Ankara: Turkey will not extradite Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq Al Hashemi, who is being tried in absentia in Baghdad accused of running a death squad, its deputy prime minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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Turkey 'refuses to extradite Iraq fugitive VP'
Turkey will not extradite Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq Al Hashemi, who is being tried in absentia in Baghdad accused of running a death squad
- AFP
- Published: 17:20 May 9, 2012
"We will not extradite someone whom we have supported since the very beginning," Bekir Bozdag was quoted as saying by the Anatolia news agency, a day after Interpol issued an international Red Notice for Hashemi's arrest on suspicion of "guiding and financing terrorist attacks".
Details to come.
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