Turkish Company to Leave Iraq, After Driver Kidnapped
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A Turkish shipping company says it is withdrawing from Iraq, after militants kidnapped one of its drivers and threatened to behead him.
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Two Turkish hostages were freed by Iraqi militants Sunday, a Turkish Foreign Ministry official said, less than a week after the men's employers said they were ending operations in Iraq to save the lives of their employees.
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Iraqi militants threatened to behead a Turkish truck driver if his company and the Kuwaiti contractor it works for don't stop their operations in Iraq within 48 hours, according to a videotape aired on Arab ...
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Turkey&#39;s foreign minister confirmed Tuesday that 10 Turkish hostages had been freed by kidnappers in Iraq. Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said 10 employees of the Turkish construction
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Kidnappers released a Jordanian truck driver Thursday after his company declared it would stop working in Iraq, a Jordanian Foreign Ministry official said.
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A video has been broadcast of Turkish businessman Kahraman SadikoÃ°lu, who was kidnapped for ransom in Ummu Kasr in Iraq. Sadikoglu says in the video that he was in Iraq for trade and after the investigations of his kidnappers he will be set free.
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HATAY/MERSIN - Renay International Transportation Company, which Turkish truck driver Mithat Civi worked for, decided to withdraw from Iraq on Sunday.
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An international construction company has pulled out of its contract to rebuild Iraq's transportation systems, deciding it was too dangerous to stay, a spokesman for the U.S.-led reconstruction effort said Wednesday.
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Turkish contractors are about to leave Iraq. Ankara-based construction company Vinsan announced on Tuesday about its decision to quit business activity in Iraq in order to save their ten employees who were captured by Iraqi terrorists last Saturday.
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CAIRO, Egypt An Egyptian company says one of its four workers who had been kidnapped in Iraq has been freed. It says it can&#39;t give the status of the others being held hostage but says it is &quot;doing its best to secure&quot; their release.
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A Turkish construction company announced Tuesday that it was halting operations in neighboring Iraq in a bid to save the lives of 10 employees kidnapped by militants.
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CAIRO -- Iraqi militants threatened to behead a Turkish truck driver if his company and the Kuwaiti contractor it works for did not stop their operations in Iraq within 48 hours, according to a videotape aired on Arab television yesterday.
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Dubai - Kidnappers have released a Turkish hostage who was under threat of beheading in Iraq, after his two employers agreed to captors&#39; demands to stop working in the country, Al Arabiya television said on Monday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The chairman of a Turkish construction company whose employees were released by kidnappers said Tuesday his firm will not withdraw from Iraq because it was unclear whether the abductions were politically motivated.    Ten employees of the Turkish firm VINSAN were freed by their abductors and arrived at the Turkish embassy in Baghdad...
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BAGHDAD -- The Arab television network Al-Jazeera broadcast footage yesterday of a Jordanian truck driver purportedly taken hostage in Iraq. Separately, a militant group said it would release a Turkish hostage but threatened to behead those who deal with the coalition forces here.
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A prominent Turkish ship owner and his captain are being held hostage in Iraq, according to video footage screened today. Kahraman Sadikoglu and ship captain Ahmet Yurtdas are believed to have been kidnapped
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ANKARA, Turkey - A Turkish company said Sunday it was withdrawing from Iraq a day after Iraqi militants threatened to behead its employee unless it ceased operations in the country, the Anatolia news agency reported.    The group, calling itself the Islamic Resistance Movement - Al-Noaman Brigades, released a tape showing a bearded man, purported to be the Turkish truck driver, sitting in front of a black banner bearing the group's name in gold Arabic characters...