BERLIN (AFP) - Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has called on members of Germany’s Turkish minority to integrate themselves better in their adopted country, in an interview with a German newspaper to be published today. “In order to be happy here, they have to integrate themselves completely,” Gul told the Berliner Zeitung at the end of a three-day visit to Germany during which he met incoming Chancellor Angela Merkel. He urged Turks living in Germany to learn to speak German and to keep up with the local news, saying they “should try to understand what is happening here so that they can convey it to their children.”

SARAJEVO (AFP) - Bosnia today marks the 10th anniversary of the Dayton peace agreement which ended more than three years of bloody inter-ethnic war and divided the country into a shaky system of separate but equal entities. On November 21, 1995, the then presidents of Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia agreed on a US-brokered peace plan after marathon talks in Dayton, Ohio. Bosnia’s leaders will again converge on the US to mark the anniversary today, but also to debate constitutional changes required to prepare the former Yugoslav republic for European integration.

A Serbian cultural center in the southern Croatian city of Split was vandalized and then set on fire, police said yesterday. Computers and other equipment were stolen before the center was doused in gasoline and set on fire in the early hours of Saturday, police told the HINA news agency. (AFP)

Bosnian police said Sunday they had arrested a Croatian Serb wanted by Croatia on suspicion of committing war crimes during the Serbo-Croat war of 1991-1995. “We arrested Andjelko Teodorovic overnight Saturday at Nova Topola,” northern Bosnia, police spokesman Rade Mutic told AFP. (AFP)

The Turkish press Saturday called for heads to roll over scuffles last week after a World Cup 2006 playoff match between Turkey and Switzerland amid self-criticism and soul-searching that followed the initial air of defiance. “You played with Turkey’s honor. Resign immediately!” headlined the daily Aksam, directing its call to coach Fatih Terim and his assistants, as well as the football federation. (AFP)