Mosul Consulate Hostage Crisis (Update: All Hostages Have Been Freed)

[Islamic faith&Secularism]

BECAUSE OF Muslim Ummah, l

A nice practical joke...thanks.

Oh come on you can't be serious; how can an entire ethnic, linguistic or geographic group support terrorism ?

You do not know the issue, and get suprised at my post.

 

[Jf Thunder]

A nice practical joke...thanks.

......................WHY ARE PPL TAKING MY POST WRONGLY? i better delete it to stop anymore misconceptions arising from it

 

[Armstrong]

You do not know the issue, and get suprised at my post.

Okay !

 

[flamer84]

Tens of billions of $ later and this is what we get from the Iraqi Army.

 

[Targon]

@Armstrong

We help anybody comes to our doors, but ethnic Turks has a more special place for us

 

[T-123456]

Okay !

......................WHY ARE PPL TAKING MY POST WRONGLY? i better delete it to stop anymore misconceptions arising from it

Relax,you worry to much.

 

[Hakan]

So @Kaan - What kind of response are we talking about ?

Would Turkish Special Forces be called in to respond to this threat & free the hostages or are the Iraqis going to do that ?



Why are those Turkmen citizens of Turkiye ?

From what i saw on t.v they are negotiating the release of the hostages. I personally dont think that they will use special forces because the mission is to risky.
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Turkey calls on NATO to hold emergency meeting after militant group ISIL kidnaps 80 citizens seized in two separate incidents, including Turkish consular staff

World Bulletin/News Desk

NATO ambassadors held an emergency meeting at Turkey's request on Wednesday on the situation in northern Iraq, wheremilitants have seized swathes of territory and taken 80 Turkish citizens hostage.

"Turkey briefed the other allies on the situation in (the Iraqi city of) Mosul and the hostage-taking of Turkish citizens, including the consul general," a NATO official said.

He said the meeting was held for informational purposes and not under Article 4 of NATO's founding treaty, which permits a member of the 28-nation alliance to ask for consultations with other allies when it feels its security is threatened.

"Allies continue to follow events very closely and with grave concern," the official said.

He said attacks by militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in Mosul represented "a serious threat to the security of Iraq and to the stability of the region".

NATO has not received any request for help from the Iraqi authorities related to the latest developments in Mosul, the official said.

"Retaliation"

Turkey's Foreign Ministry has confirmed 49 Turkish consulate staff members, including the consul-general and family members, have been abducted by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant militants in the Iraqi city of Mosul.

The abductions came Wednesday, a day after ISIL took control of Iraq's second-largest city and seized 31 Turkish truck drivers who were transporting fuel to a thermal power plant.

Speaking as he prepared to leave a UN meeting on counter-terrorism in the United States to return to Ankara, the Turkish capital, to deal with the incident, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the Iraqi government was responsible for the security of the consulate staff.

"No one should dare test Turkey's power," he said, adding that Turkey would not allow any harming of its nationals to go unpunished.

"Right now we're engaged in calm crisis management, considering our citizens' security," Davutoglu said in New York after cancelling meetings at the U.N. to return to Turkey.

"This should not be misunderstood. Any harm to our citizens and staff would be met with the harshest retaliation," he told reporters in comments broadcast on Turkish television.

Davutoglu said he had called for the evacuation of the consulate in Mosul several days ago but that the situation on the ground had been too dangerous for that to take place.

He said on his Twitter account late on Tuesday, after the truck drivers were taken, that the necessary measures had been taken for the safety of the Turkish consulate in Mosul.

'Maximum alert'

The ministry strongly condemned the abductions and said Turkey would use every means available to save its consulate staff.

Meanwhile, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan chaired an emergency meeting with senior government figures over the incident.

Turkish President Abdullah Gul also summoned Deputy Foreign Minister Naci Koru to Turkey's presidential palace to be briefed on developments in Mosul.

Turkey also called on NATO to hold an emergency meeting after the militants kidnapped the Turkish diplomatic staff.

More than 300,000 residents have fled Mosul, where security forces and militants have been clashing since Friday.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Tuesday that Iraq had been placed on "maximum alert" and called on the Iraqi parliament to declare a national state of emergency.

NATO holds emergency meeting on Iraq crisis at Turkey's request | Turkey | Worldbulletin News

 

[-SINAN-]

Davutoğlu: "Nobody should test the might of Turkey"

Did anyone counted how many times we heard that ?

I lost the count but i'm sure that no country left that hadn't tested Turkey's might and patience....... we sure have a large patience.

 

[atatwolf]

Tens of billions of $ later and this is what we get from the Iraqi Army.

You have to count the Arab factor in. Seriously, they left all their equipment and ran away. Davutoglu made another strategic blunder with making the assumption Iraqi Arabs would stand their ground and fight like they suppose to.

 

[Jaanbaz]

Maliki pulled them out, so that ISIL can move in. This is the same game he is playing like Bashaar is playing in Syria

What can Maliki do when his southern Neighbour is providing huge amounts of aid and weapons. Get ready for the mass massacre of Shia Muslims in Syria and Iraq and then revenge killings of Sunnis. An all out Shia Sunni war will only benefit Israel in the end.

why u indians are against turkey?? it seems like everyone who is friend of Pakistan is kind of give butt hurt to india one way or another

Yeah, remember the butthurt they got when Russia lifted arms embargo on Pakistan?

 

[Wave]

I belive Turkey have stopped their support for ISIS especially now after classifying them as terrorists but in the past they did. But we all know that Erdogan's policies in Syria have been a total failure.

This is a bs Documentary, they cite no one directly only people who know someone who witnessed something

 

[Azizam]

NATO holds emergency meeting on Iraq crisis at Turkey's request

NATO ambassadors held an emergency meeting at Turkey's request on Wednesday on the situation in northern Iraq, where Islamist militants have seized swathes of territory and taken 80 Turkish citizens hostage.

"Turkey briefed the other allies on the situation in (the Iraqi city of) Mosul and the hostage-taking of Turkish citizens, including the consul general," a NATO official said.

He said the meeting was held for informational purposes and not under Article 4 of NATO's founding treaty, which permits a member of the 28-nation alliance to ask for consultations with other allies when it feels its security is threatened.

"Allies continue to follow events very closely and with grave concern," the official said.

He said attacks by militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in Mosul represented "a serious threat to the security of Iraq and to the stability of the region".

NATO has not received any request for help from the Iraqi authorities related to the latest developments in Mosul, the official said.

Ankara has twice invoked Article 4 in 2012 to ask for consultations with its NATO allies over the Syria conflict.

 

[Multani]

What can Maliki do when his southern Neighbour is providing huge amounts of aid and weapons. Get ready for the mass massacre of Shia Muslims in Syria and Iraq and then revenge killings of Sunnis. An all out Shia Sunni war will only benefit Israel in the?

There is no sunni shia war. It is a salafi jihadi [takfiri] shia war.

ISIL is not funded by saudis. It is funded by Maliki and Bashaar himself.

Iraq and Syria have massive Sunni populations who will not tolerate the killing of innocent shia muslims.

 

[Jaanbaz]

There is no sunni shia war. It is a salafi jihadi [takfiri] shia war.

ISIL is not funded by saudis. It is funded by Maliki and Bashaar himself.

Iraq and Syria have massive Sunni populations who will not tolerate the killing of innocent shia muslims.

10 points for a conspiracy theory.

 

[Worf]

Turkey can't even stop internal terrorists removing a flag from a MILITARY base, let alone stop ISIS.

But I still have hope. These two events are a major bitch slap to the AKP Gov. so I'm expecting a retaliation of some sort to remind people that Turkey is strong.