PKK warned Germany over hostile policy: report
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The outlawed PKK warned Germany about the "negative consequences" of its policy towards itself before it kidnapped three Germans in Turkey this week, AFP quoted a report in the weekly Der Spiegel.
The PKK called on Chancellor Angela Merkel's government to give up its hostile policy towards the its members and its liberation movement or take responsibility for "the negative consequences", the magazine said, without naming its sources.Â
The demand was transmitted via the German embassy in Turkey at the end of June, Der Spiegel wrote.
Shortly afterwards Turkish police informed their German colleagues of heightened activity within the PKK in Turkey and warned of the likely risk of kidnappings or attacks. The German police passed on the information to the interior ministries of several countries, according to Der Spiegel.
Secretary of state for the interior August Hanning nevertheless acknowledged to the magazine that, "We will probably also have to prepare ourselves for new dangers on German soil", AFP reported.Â
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has rejected demands for a change of policy towards the PKK in exchange for the freedom of the three German climbers snatched on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey.
Turkey's paramilitary gendarmerie forces have been deployed to search for three Germans kidnapped by the outlawed PKK separatists.
The PKK is considered a terrorist organization by