CZECH REPUBLIC: Czech authorities detained leading Syrian Kurdish politician Salih Muslim at the weekend under an Interpol red notice based on Turkey's request for his arrest.

A Democratic Union Party (PYD) official close to Mr Muslim confirmed that the former PYD co-chair was in Prague attending a conference and was arrested after a Turkish participant took a photograph of him and approached police.

An extradition request by Turkey for the Syrian citizen would have to be approved by a Czech court and by the justice minister.