Turkish Special Forces

The largest business organization launches a two-phase study on securing and sustaining business in violence-hit Iraq as companies

Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç has said he hopes the Turkish hostages in Iraq will be released in the “near future; [hopefully] during Ramadan.”

Comprehensive efforts are underway for the release of 80 Turkish nationals in Mosul who were abducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Arınç told reporters at a press conference late June 30.

In the dead heat of the Cypriot summer in 1996, a young Greek Cypriot, Tassos Isaac, was beaten to death by a group of ultranationalist Turks.

49 Turkish employees, including Turkey's consul general, have been kidnapped by the militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Soldiers from Turkish Special Forces and children of diplomats are reportedly among the hostages