Voice of America: Turkey Refuses to Extradite Fugitive Iraqi VP

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Turkey Refuses to Extradite Fugitive Iraqi VP Sep 11th 2012, 11:09 Turkey has refused to hand over fugitive Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, who faces a death sentence in Baghdad. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday, Hashemi could stay in Turkey as long as he wants and that Ankara will not send him to Iraq. Hashemi, who is Sunni, denounced the death sentence handed down by an Iraqi court as an act of political retribution by the country's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Speaking from exile in Ankara Monday, Hashemi ... Media files: 76A0B194-E6F6-4162-9F15-4EBB313F2AD8_cx0_cy0_cw0_w800_r1.jpg?nocache=1 (image/jpeg, 0 MB)

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