Kidnapped Workers: Turkish Mps Head To Baghdad

Turkey's Republican Peoples' Party (CHP) deputies left Istanbul on Saturday for Iraq to monitor the rescue efforts for 18 Turkish workers kidnapped in Baghdad. 



Men in military uniform reportedly abducted the group, which includes 14 workers, three engineers and an accountant, early Wednesday after raiding a construction site of a Turkish company, Nurol Holding, in Sadr city, a Baghdad suburb.



Three deputies Mahmut Tanal, Ahmet Akin and Tahsin Tarhan are also expected to contribute in the ongoing rescue operation.



 "We will do our best for our brothers," lawmaker Ahmet Akin told press members at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul before leaving. He added they would be meeting with company and Iraqi officials



"Our aim is to bring good news. There is no information on who abducted them. I hope it will be clear after we go and work there," said another deputy Tahsin Tarhan.



The kidnapping of 18 Turkish workers in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad is neither the work of Daesh nor PKK, according to Turkish Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirlioglu. 



"What we know is that it is not [the work of] one of the terrorist organizations that we are all familiar with; it is not Daesh or PKK," Sinirlioglu told the media at the Turkish parliament on Thursday. - İstanbul