July 21, 2008	Monday	Rajab 17, 1429

ANKARA, July 20: Three German tourists kidnapped by Kurdish guerillas while on a climbing expedition in eastern Turkey earlier this month are free, German’s foreign minister and Turkish officials said on Sunday.

“We have the German mountaineers. The Foreign Minister, Ali Babacan, has called the German Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, to inform him,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Burak Ozugergin.

The men were kidnapped in Agri province, near the border with Iran, nearly two weeks ago.—Reuters