Have you looked at the map to see where tal abyad is located? it is a border city which is almost recently fully captured by ISIS. Do you think that ISIS guys are morons to move all hostages to this city? No, they are not, bro They wanted to release them after having a deal with the turkish government. Anyway, as I said before, having such deals are not necessarily bad, as long as it does not contradict national interests.Who said they released them? Whether they were given or taken isn't known at this point, but considering what I said in my previous post, it's very unlikely they were given.