Turkish Army denies Iraq arrested its officers
Iraqi Shiite men, some of them wearing military fatigues and guns given by the government, raise their weapons as they gather in the Iraqi town of Jdaideh in the Diyala province on June 14, 2014, to show their support for the call to arms by Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE
Turkish General Staff has denied claims that four Turkish officers, who were alleged to provide training to radical Islamist militants, were arrested by Iraq's security forces in the city of Fallujah.
In a written statement issued on June 14, the general staff called the claims "groundless" and "unreal."
The claims came after Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, militants raided Turkey's Mosul consulate on June 11 and abducted 49 Turkish nationals, including consulate staff and their families, after they assumed control of the city on June 10.
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