Climbers kidnapped by rebels
Kurdish rebels have kidnapped three German climbers on Mount Ararat - the site where Noah's Ark is said to have landed after the great flood - according to the governor of an eastern Turkish province.
Governor Mehmet Cetin said the climbers were among a 13-member German team who had been allowed to climb Ararat.
The rebels abducted and released several foreign tourists and climbers in the country's south-east in the early 1990s.
The rebels have been fighting for autonomy in the region since 1984.