Turkish company confirms hostages
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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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The Egyptian foreign ministry has confirmed the abduction of six Egyptians employed by an Iraqi unit of the Egyptian telecom giant Orascom.
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Video footage aired Saturday on Turkish television showed a Turkish ship owner saying he and a ship captain were being held hostage in Iraq, as the captain broke down in tears.
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A militant group in Iraq claimed it is holding 10 hostages working for an American-Turkish company in a tape broadcast by the Arabic television station Al-Jazeera Saturday.
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Jakarta confirmed Friday that two Indonesian women were kidnapped in Iraq, but said their captors&#39; identity and demands were not known.
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A Kuwaiti company with seven truck drivers held captive in Iraq said Wednesday that they have been freed by their captors. &quot;We just got custody of the drivers,&quot; Rana Abu Zaineh, a spokeswoman
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An Islamist Web site on Monday showed the beheading of two hostages one a Kurdish translator and the other a Turkish contractor wearing a badge of the Titan security company.
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ANKARA, Turkey - Islamic insurgents released 10 Turkish hostages in Iraq, and their employer said Tuesday that his company will resume operations in the wartorn country because it was unclear whether the abductions were politically motivated or criminal.    The hostages, who were released Monday night, arrived in the Turkish Embassy in Baghdad Tuesday morning, their company, the Ankara-based VINSAN, said...
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Video footage aired Saturday on Turkish televisions showed a Turkish ship owner saying he and another man were being held hostage in Iraq.
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All Royal Dutch Shell contractors kidnapped in Nigeria this week have been freed by their captors, a company spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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Two Turkish engineers abducted by Iraqi militants were freed on Sunday after the companies they work for said they would withdraw from Iraq to save their lives, the state-run Anatolian news agency said.
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Turkey&#39;s foreign minister confirms ten Turkish hostages, who have been freed by kidnappers, are now in the Turkish embassy in Baghdad.
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The employer of 10 Turkish workers kidnapped simultaneously in Iraq last week made an emotional plea for their release on Tuesday, promising to freeze operations
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Aytullah Gezmen, of Turkey. Kidnapped July 27 or 28. Worked for Bilintur, Turkish company providing laundry service for Jordanian firm in Iraq.
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An unidentified armed man was holding  a woman hostage at the headquarters of Turkish Airlines in  Istanbul on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the company told  Reuters.
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Two Turkish engineers abducted by  Iraqi militants were freed on Sunday after the companies they  work for said they would withdraw from Iraq to save their  lives, the state-run Anatolian news agency said.
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ANKARA, Turkey  - Kidnappers have abducted a  Turkish shipping magnate and three others in southern Iraq and  demanded a $25 million ransom, the Turkish private NTV  television channel said Saturday.