Advisor to Turkish President: No Definite Information Pilgrims Arrived in Turkey
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Advisor to the Turkish president, Irshad Hormuzlu, denied on Saturday reports that Turkey had informed Lebanese authorities that the 11 Lebanese pilgrims abducted in Syria have entered Turkey, reported Voice of Lebanon radio.
He told VDL: “There is no definite information that they have entered Turkey.”
He added that there is not definite information about their exact whereabouts in Syria, revealing that several contacts are being held to settle this issue.
Hormuzlu expected that the issue will be resolved soon, saying that several efforts are being exerted to this end.
Asked about Prime Minister Najib Miqati’s visit to Turkey later on Saturday, he replied that the talks are not dedicated to discussing the case of the pilgrims.
The prime minister is scheduled to meet with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyib Erdogan and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
The Turkish official contacted Miqati on Friday to confirm that the pilgrims are doing well.
MTV reported on Saturday that disputes over a possible ransom may be delaying their release.
The 11 pilgrims were kidnapped in Aleppo on Tuesday.
The Free Syrian Army has been accused of being behind the abduction, a claim it has denied.
On Thursday, the rebel army said it was making "every effort" to locate and release the pilgrims.
Conflicting reports had emerged on Friday about the exact timing of their arrival in Beirut and about whether or not they were handed over to Turkish authorities.
26 May 2012, 18:53
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Guys,
I am sorry to advise I am now convinced we are at the dawn of a major war in the region as all the news seem to point in tht direction. I wish you all a safe period and take care.
this is based on the lates direction of things happening around us these days.
the talks with iran have failed dramatically apparently and the esclation against the syrian regime are clear indications of what is coming.
26 May 2012, 15:03
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Come on we have lived 30yrs of war and experienced hundreds and hundreds of kidnappings, who showed the world community that they are the good guys after every western kidnapping?
In the end of this film the current regime will state that they caught the extremists kidnappers and Bashar was the one who released them, very similar to the Lebanese fisher boy who was killed and his uncle was released by Bashar after he was beaten to death.
26 May 2012, 16:08
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One good old trick by bashar one you should know well Ft aka electricity payer.
26 May 2012, 16:22
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nothing funny when innocent lifes are at stake.
your twisted mind finds it funny? what a jerk and a sick mind.
26 May 2012, 16:34
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Geha. In theory what you are saying is true. But look at the whole situation.
It´s sad that innocent people are being held hostage but It´s a comedy carousel all this ( the politics around it).
Did you listen to the interview with the defense minister yesterday?
Did you listen to what the people thought and said outside the Beirut Airport?
Did you listen to future TV contra manar TV ( concerning this carousel)?
After letting the people celebrate, it turns out in the end that nobody, not even Hassan nasrullah or Hariri knows anything about the victims whereabouts.
" I want to thank Bashar Al Assad, Hassan Nasrullah, Nabih Berri, Saed Hariri and Turkey for bringing them back to us"
-But where are they?
26 May 2012, 16:55
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ulpianus.
if our politicians make a circus out of this sad situation, why should we? if we do, we are not better than those stupid people.
26 May 2012, 17:09
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You are right. Lets make our voices count during the next elections and kick them all out.
I will do everything I can to find a party not affiliated with the ones we have seen in power last 20 years.
26 May 2012, 17:09
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You are right. Lets make our voices count during the next elections and kick them all out.
I will do everything I can to find a party not affiliated with the ones we have seen in power last 20 years.
27 May 2012, 11:59
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geha i dont see you making a humanitarian crisis over the syrians abducted in lebanon recently or better yet, all the lebanese missing in syrian jails for decades now.
or are they not human..second class humans maybe right?
26 May 2012, 16:29
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The only real information came from the opposition Free Syrian Army. “Contacts with the rebel group, which is present in Aazaz in Aleppo, has been interrupted since 8 p.m. on Friday,” FSA spokesperson Khaled Youssef al-Hammoud told Al-Jadeed earlier today. “The Syrian regime is preventing us from acting in order to resolve this issue… They shelled the team that we sent to conduct negotiations with the abductors.”
26 May 2012, 19:05
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Maybe it's donna take a big war to flush the iranian germs and their local puppets through the toilet pipes, and get did of them once and for all ! There has to be more sacrifices for that I m afraid... There will be no Iranian-style islamic state in Lebanon!
26 May 2012, 19:47
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Ou ****** wazir el kherjiye Mansour confirmed on tv that they will land At Hariri Int in half an hour ,That was 8 OClock .
Another profile to be added to M8 .
So now we can decribe them as thugs,criminals,crazy and AGHBIYA .
27 May 2012, 17:53
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The pilgrims are dead. This was done by the Israelis to provoke sunni/shia war.
