Reports: Turkish Shipping Magnate Kidnapped in Iraq
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Unidentified kidnappers are demanding a $25-million ransom for a Turkish shipping magnate they abducted in Iraq. That&#39;s according to a Turkish television channel, which aired video footage
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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, Iraq -- A Filipino working for a Saudi company was among a group of people kidnapped at gunpoint from their Baghdad offices on Monday, a US embassy spokesman said Tuesday.
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A TURKISH company confirmed today that 10 of its employees in Iraq had been taken hostage, but declined to say whether it would pull out from the war-torn country to save their lives.
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BAGHDAD - One of Turkey&#39;s richest businessmen has been reported kidnapped, appearing in a video Saturday along with a weeping employee saying they were being held hostage.
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One of Turkey&#39;s richest businessmen said he has been kidnapped in Iraq, appearing in a video aired Saturday alongside one of his weeping
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The humanitarian aid group Care International today announced that the British-born head of its Iraqi operation had been kidnapped in Baghdad.
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CAIRO, Egypt Oct. 14, 2004 - A man identified as a Turkish truck driver kidnapped in Iraq was beheaded in a video shown on an Islamic Web site Thursday.
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A British-born woman who heads a charitable organisation in Iraq has been kidnapped in Baghdad this morning. A video showing Margaret Hassan in the hands of her captors has been broadcast this afternoon on the Arabic-language news service Al Jazeera.
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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...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Al-Jazeera television says an &quot;armed group&quot; announced it kidnapped the director of CARE International&#39;s operation in Iraq.
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Militants kidnapped a Turkish engineer in eastern Afghanistan, a government official said.
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A Turkish Airlines employee armed with a gun was holding a female colleague hostage at the company's headquarters in Istanbul on Tuesday, a company spokeswoman told Reuters.
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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 Sept. 6, 2004 - A Turkish driver taken hostage in Iraq was freed by his captors on Monday, Turkey&#39;s foreign minister said.
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Iraqi kidnappers seized two Americans and a Briton from their home and office in Baghdad Thursday, CNN reported. US and British officials in Iraq said they were looking into the report from the Iraqi Ministry of Interior.