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'Turkish workers seized' in Iraq 'Turkish construction workers seized' in Iraq
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At least 16 Turkish building workers kidnapped by gunmen in north Baghdad, police say At least 17 Turkish construction workers have been kidnapped by gunmen in the north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, security officials say.
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. The workers were employees of a company building a sports complex in the Sadr City district.
If you want to receive Breaking News alerts via email, or on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App then details on how to do so are available on this help page. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts. They had been sleeping in caravans at the site when the gunmen arrived in vehicles at dawn and took them away, officials told the Associated Press.
Neither the identity nor the motive of the kidnappers was immediately known.
Turkey recently began carrying out air strikes against Islamic State (IS) in northern Iraq and allowing US warplanes to use its bases to bomb the jihadist group.