• Turkey says 49 hostages seized by ISIS have been freed
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[QUOTE] Dozens of Turkish hostages seized by Islamic militants in Iraq three months ago were freed and safely returned to Turkey on Saturday, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said, ending Turkey's most serious hostage crisis. The 49 hostages were captured from the Turkish Consulate in Mosul, Iraq on June 11, when the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) – also known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) – overran the city in its surge to seize large swaths of Iraq and Syria. Their release contrasts with the recent beheadings of two U.S. journalists and a British aid worker by the Islamic State group, but it wasn't immediately clear what Turkey had done to secure the safe return of the hostages. Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said the hostages are 49 Turkish consulate employees — 46 Turks and three local Iraqis. They include Consul General Ozturk Yilmaz, other diplomats, children and special forces police. The hostages were released early on Saturday and had arrived in Turkey, Davutoglu told Turkish reporters during a visit to Baku, Azerbaijan. He cut his visit short to meet them in the province of Sanliurfa, near Turkey's border with Syria and was bringing them back to Ankara on his plane. He didn't say where the release took place, but Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency said the hostages had been held in eight separate addresses in Mosul. Their whereabouts were monitored by drones and other means, it said. Turkey had been reluctant to join a coalition to defeat the Islamic State group, citing the safety of its 49 kidnapped citizens. The United States had been careful not to push Turkey too hard as it tried to free the hostages. [/QUOTE] [url]http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/turkey-says-49-hostages-seized-by-isis-have-been-freed-1.2772734[/url]
It's just Sunni muslims freeing Sunni muslims, hardly news. Now if they freed Iranian Shiites, that would be different.
[QUOTE=Killergam;46030737]It's just Sunni muslims freeing Sunni muslims, hardly news. Now if they freed Iranian Shiites, that would be different.[/QUOTE] Lets be happy 49 people arent going to be beheaded by islamists.
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;46030742]Lets be happy 49 people arent going to be beheaded by extremists.[/QUOTE] ftfy
It would be strange for a new self-proclaimed Sunni Caliph to execute Sunni Muslims. Glad they were released though, very lucky all considered.
[QUOTE=Revanold;46031150]ftfy[/QUOTE] ISIS definitely fits the definition of Islamist.
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