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Iraqi fugitive Sunni VP Hashemi rents two
apartments in Istanbul
20.4.2012 |
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April 20, 2012
ISTANBUL,— Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi
will be protected by high security staff while
staying in Istanbul after holding talks with Turkish
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on April 14
evening.
Two apartments have been rented in the Başakşehir
district of Istanbul for Hashemi, his family and his
guards, who came to Turkey on April 9, daily
HaberTürk reported.
The Turkish government has tasked a police unit with
protecting al-Hashemi and his family
visiting the country.
The daily said Hashemi is being protected during his
stay in Turkey by 17 Turkish police officers,
including one chief police officer from the Turkish
Prime Ministry’s Protection Department.
Al-Hashimi’s wife and two daughters are guarded by
separate police officers.
The al-Hasemi family is not staying at a hotel due
to security concerns, the daily said.
Diplomatic sources told the Hürriyet Daily News that
it is understood that these measures are taken to
provide full security for Hashemi during his
temporary stay in Turkey.
Sources also said Hashemi did not make any asylum
request from Turkey and that Iraq has not requested
extradition of the fugitive leader from Turkey,www.ekurd.net
as it did from Qatar when Hashemi was there.
Hashemi said some of his family members were with
him while others were in Jordan, however, said he
will stay in Turkey for a few days more.
Hashemi who has been sheltering in Iraq's autonomous
Kurdistan region, following a political dispute in
Baghdad on Thursday
met Kurdistan president
Massoud Barzani in Istanbul.
"We have had fruitful talks," Hashemi told the press
without giving details.
A political crisis erupted in Iraq on December 19,
when Maliki's-led government sought an arrest
warrant for Sunni Vice President Tareq Hashemi on
charges he ran death squads and the ouster of Sunni
Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq.
Hashemi denies the accusations and has called for
the referral of his case to the Kurdistan region,
but Iraq’s judiciary has rejected his request.
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