in iraq and syria. on thursday 7 german nationals suspected of being connected to i guess landed at an airport in berlin they had been deported from turkey let s take this story now to our chief political correspondent melinda crane she is on the story here in berlin good evening to you melinda turkey announced that in the next few days you ve got a total of 11 german citizens he will be repatriated the 1st have arrived here in germany what do we know about the ones who ve arrived and about their connection to islamic state. this is a family of 7 people including 4 women and a baby who was born in detention in turkey they were originally from iraq but all but one of them have german citizenship and they had been living in the eastern german town of hilda simon till early this year when they went to turkey
young women epperly in cafe they too want to see an open mind it islam. well i m joined now by our chief political correspondent melinda crane she is here in berlin this evening good evening to you melinda the german is long conference it began with the country s interior minister horse over saying that muslims belong to germany now he is known as being a very conservative politician did that statement surprise you. absolutely it did and it surprised many others as well this is the same man who shortly after taking office as interior minister directly contradicted the chancellor she had said islam does belong to germany and he said no it does not and he went on in the months after that to essentially instrumental ised prejudices both against immigrants and against muslims in the hope of trying to win voters away from a party on the far right the alternative for germany the party that has been on the
young woman there in the report but there are also independent islamic organizations and misters a hope for the host of the conference this year went out of his way to invite some of those voices to join in the debate and that is very very important because ultimately i think this can t be about germany banning organizations that are seen as being foreign controlled certainly we don t want to see the government working together with organizations where we know that the turkish government for example is using them as an arm of propaganda but i think what s very important here and certainly this is what members of the islamic community are saying is that that community itself needs to debate all of the different myriad forms of this religion and try to open up discussion about what those are in order to give muslims in germany more choice and that is absolutely consistent with german constitutional values and german law or gee political correspondent linda greene on
decide to fight for my cattle and president. more on this developing story let s bring in our chief political correspondent melinda crane she s in our parliamentary studios and also with us is javier perez de la cruz he s a spanish journalist who s covered recent cattle on elections good morning to you both a moment to start with you why was purged of all detained here in germany and not in belgium where he s residing or finland where he s been visiting. according to the european union s rules of extradition a country can and will only extradite someone where there is a request for extradition if its own legal code includes charges more or less comparable actually almost identical to the charges on which he has been or the issue for his arrest has been issued by the country requesting extradition in other words belgium would have had to look at whether they have
a national tragedy to day miracle spoke during a memorial ceremony and her infamous diplomatic almost poker face was visibly moved to me. me and for the entire government that means working to improve on the things that didn t go well. we must all do all that is humanly possible to provide security and safety. so but also to give people whose lives were destroyed or affected the possibility to resume their lives. in us leaving united. but today s a day of grieving but it s also a day where we will allow selves to do better with the things that didn t work well it s not so much. as the german chancellor there speaking earlier today i want to pull in our chief political correspondent melinda crane she s in our parliamentary