Turkish Foreign Ministry summons German envoy over Salih Muslim

<p style="text-align: left;">Turkey&amp;rsquo;s Foreign Ministry summoned a German diplomat in Ankara on April 27 and asked German authorities to intervene in a meeting in Germany where former Democratic Union Party (PYD) co-chair Salih Muslim plans to deliver a speech.

The charge d&rsquo;affairs of the embassy was summoned, as the German ambassador to Ankara was absent, and was asked to convey to Berlin Turkey&rsquo;s demand to have Muslim excluded from the event on May 19 in Ludwigshafen where he will deliver a speech, a Foreign Ministry official has told the Hurriyet Daily News.

The ministry reiterated they wanted German authorities to extradite Muslim.

Muslim was arrested on Feb. 25 in Prague following Turkey&rsquo;s request to the Czech Republic.

Two days later, he was released by a Czech court on the condition that he would not leave the European Union and appear in future hearings in the extradition case, an event that caused a diplomatic row with Ankara.

On March 3, Turkish authorities said Muslim was spotted in Berlin, where he also participated in a demonstration organized by outlawed Kurdistan Workers&rsquo; Party (PKK) supporters. Ankara had asked German authorities to extradite him.

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