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Turkish construction workers seized in Iraq | |
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At least 18 Turkish construction workers have been kidnapped by gunmen in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, Iraqi and Turkish officials say. | |
The workers were employed by a Turkish company building a sports stadium in the north-eastern Sadr City district. | |
They were sleeping in caravans at the site when armed men wearing military uniforms reportedly arrived in pick-up trucks at dawn and took them away. | |
Neither the identity nor the motive of the kidnappers was immediately known. | Neither the identity nor the motive of the kidnappers was immediately known. |
Turkey recently began carrying out air strikes against Islamic State (IS) in Syria, and allowing US warplanes to use its bases to bomb the jihadist group. | |
Last June, 46 Turkish citizens were seized by IS militants as they captured the northern city of Mosul. They were released unharmed after more than three months in captivity. | |
Sadr City is also stronghold of the pro-government Shia militias battling IS on the ground in Iraq. |