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‘Turkish nationals kidnapped by ISIS have been freed’

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Update: 2014-09-20 05:01:00
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DHAKA: Dozens of Turkish nationals held hostage by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) jihadists in northern Iraq for more than three months have been released and brought to Turkey.

Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.

‘Early in the morning our citizens were handed over to us and we brought them back into our country. At 5:00am they entered the country,’ Davutoglu told reporters during an official visit to Azerbaijan, adding that all were in good health.

ISIS jihadists kidnapped 49 Turks, including diplomats, children and special forces from the Turkish consulate in Mosul on June 11 as they captured swathes of northern Iraq.

The circumstances of their release were not immediately clear.

Davutoglu said he was cutting short his Baku trip to meet the hostages in the southern Turkish city of Sanliurfa near the Syrian border.

BDST: 1441 HRS, SEP 20, 2014

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