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TURKEY REFUSES TO EXTRADITE FUGITIVE IRAQI VICE PREZ
September 11, 2012: Turkey today said it won't extradite Iraq's fugitive vice president Tareq al-Hashemi, who has been convicted of murder and sentenced to death in absentia by an Iraqi court.
"We will host Hashemi in our country as long as he wants to remain in Turkey. We will not hand him over," Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a news conference in Ankara. (Sources: AFP, 11/09/2012)
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