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The cooperation in the defense industry will help Türkiye and Hungary achieve the target of boosting bilateral trade volume to $6 billion, said Industry and Technology Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacır has said.

Kacır recently paid a visit to Budapest for talks, where he met with Hungarian Defense Minister Kristf Szalay-Bobrovniczkye.

Turkey's largest defense companies will showcase their products at another international fair, this time in Chile.

Aselsan, Aspilsan, Havelsan, Nurol, Otokar, Repkon, Roketsan, Tisaş, Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAŞ, and Canik will take part in the International Air and Space Fair (FIDAE), which will take place between April 5 and April 10 in Chile's capital Santiago.

The Iranian intelligence service stepped in for the release of Turkish workers kidnapped in Iraq. The Turkish National Intelligence Service (M?T) had contacted Tehran and prominent Shiite leaders with leverage on Shiite militias for help in the workers' case.

Sixteen Turkish workers who were held captive by Shiite militias earlier this month in the Iraqi capital Baghdad have arrived in the Turkish capital late Sept. 30 after their release earlier in the day.

Sixteen Turkish workers who were being held captive by Shiite militias in Iraq have been released and are now on the way to the embassy, according to Turkish Ambassador to Baghdad Faruk Kaymakç?.

"We took the workers 55-60 kilometers south of Baghdad, and we are on the way back to the embassy right now," the ambassador told the Hürriyet Daily News on Sept. 30. 

Sixteen Turkish workers who were being held captive by Shiite militias in Iraq have been released and are now on the way to the embassy, according to Turkish Ambassador to Baghdad Faruk Kaymakç?.

"We took the workers 55-60 kilometers south of Baghdad, and we are on the way back to the embassy right now," the ambassador told the Hürriyet Daily News on Sept. 30. 

A Turkish official denied reports that said Turkish workers who were kidnapped by gunmen in Baghdad earlier in September were released, while underlining that intense efforts to this aim have been underway.

Two of 18 Turkish workers kidnapped by gunmen in Baghdad this month have been freed in the southern city of Basra in front of a Turkish company's construction site, officials told Hürriyet Daily News on Sept. 16. 

The top Shiite cleric in Iraq on, al-Sistani, calls for the release of 18 Turkish workers kidnapped in Baghdad last week The top Shiite cleric in Iraq on Sept.

An Iraqi soldier was killed in clashes with gunmen as security forces searched for a suspect behind the kidnappings of 18 Turkish workers, the military said on Sept. 4.

The Turkish employees of construction company Nurol ?n?aat were seized on Sept. 2 in the Sadr City area of north Baghdad, where they were working on a football stadium project.