Faruk Kaymakç

Greece is provoking Turkey by claiming sovereignty over islets and rocky formations in the Aegean Sea, Turkey's ambassador to the EU, Faruk Kaymakc, has told the Euractiv news website in an interview published Friday.

Turkey has restricted entry visas for Iraqis in a bid to limit foreign fighters reaching its territory and stem the flow of migrants and refugees to Europe. 

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, Turkish Ambassador to Baghdad Faruk Kaymakç? has said. 

"We took the workers 55-60 kilometers south of Baghdad on Karbala road in the morning and we are on the way back to the embassy right now," Ambassador Kaymakç? told the Hürriyet Daily News on Sept. 30. 

Sixteen Turkish workers who were being held captive by Shiite militias in Iraq have been released, Turkish Ambassador to Baghdad Faruk Kaymakç? has said. 

"We took the workers 55-60 kilometers south of Baghdad on Karbala road in the morning and we are on the way back to the embassy right now," Ambassador Kaymakç? 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. 

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. 

Deputies from the Republican People's Party (CHP) arrived in Baghdad on Sept. 5 to monitor rescue efforts for 18 abducted Turkish workers, official sources said, as daily Hürriyet reported that the workers were taken away in 16 vehicles by the kidnappers. 

Two cargo planes carrying Turkish military aid to Iraqi soldiers arrived in Baghdad on March 3, a Turkish official told the Hürriyet Daily News, stressing that the assistance includes non-lethal military equipment aid for 500 soldiers of the central government.