Saleh Muslim: Syrian Kurdish leader arrested in Prague Published duration 25 February 2018

image caption Mr Muslim is a former co-chair of the Syrian-Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD)

A prominent Syrian-Kurdish leader has been arrested in the Czech capital Prague on a warrant issued by Turkey.

Saleh Muslim, a former co-chair of the main Syrian-Kurdish movement, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), was arrested early on Sunday.

The Turkish justice ministry said it has begun efforts to have Mr Muslim extradited.

Turkey views him as a terrorist and had offered $1 million (£715,000) for his arrest.

"Upon finding the person in question was in the Czech Republic... it was demanded that he be captured and arrested to be extradited," the ministry said in a statement.

The Turkish government regards the PYD as an offshoot of the armed PKK group. It sees the PYD and its associated militia, the YPG, as terrorists.