Ankara - Three German climbers who were held hostage for 12 days after being abducted by Kurdish rebels in eastern Turkey arrived in the capital Ankara Monday ahead of a flight home to Germany, the Anadolu news agency reported.
Lars Holger Renne, 33, Martin Georg S., 47, and Helmut Johann H., 65, all from Bavaria, were abducted on July 8 by five Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) guerrillas who raided a 3,200-metre camp on Mount Ararat.
The three were released on Sunday and after spending the night at a police guest house in Agri, the mountaineers flew to Ankara from the eastern city of Erzurum on Monday morning.