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Two Turkish hostages freed in Iraq
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-07-03 16:42
Two Turkish hostages have been released in Iraq,
Turkey's Foreign Ministry in Ankara told CNN.
Image from a
video released to the Al-Jazeera television network Saturday June 26, 2004
showing three Turkish men kidnapped by the Tawhid and Jihad movement,
allegedly led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
[AP/file] |
The two -- released on Friday -- worked for a Turkish firm Kayteks, which
manufactures air conditioning units, the ministry said.
Three Turkish citizens held hostage in Iraq were freed last week, after their
kidnappers had threatened to behead the men unless Turkish companies stopped
doing business with the U.S. military in Iraq.
Those workers attributed their release to their Islamic faith and vowing to
never return to the neighboring nation.
Last week, television channels showed the three men -- who worked for
companies doing business with U.S. forces in Iraq -- embracing with loved ones
in Turkey's southeastern city of Diyarbakir.
The Turks were among dozens of people kidnapped in Iraq in recent months.
Most have been freed, but several were slain -- two of whom were
beheaded.
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