Turkish officials successfully negotiated the release of 49 hostages captured during the ISIS capture of Mosul, at the Turkish consulate. The hostages had been held since June 11, and arrived at the Ankara Airport today.
The hostage situation had been a huge issue for the Turkish government, which had prevented most media coverage of the situation, and has cited the hostages as a reason not to take a bigger role in the US war on ISIS.
The terms of the release were not clear, but it was a negotiated settlement. Turkish officials claimed no ransom was paid, and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu praised the intelligence agency for securing the release.
Though some US analysts were quick to speculate the release of the hostages freed up Turkey to join the ISIS war, there is so far no indication that is the case, and it is unlikely ISIS would’ve willingly released the hostages in a way that would draw Turkey into the war against them.
The Turkish Erdogan government was already paid when the Turkish government decided not to cooperate with USG/French/Iran and Iraqi government helping or fighting Saudis barbarians.
We been saying this for years, Erdogan regime is and was part of the effort to creat ISIS, their role was and is to to be ISIS logistic supplier, and they still are. Erdogan regime simply follows the Saudis/Wahhabis and others that are involved and supporting ISIS and by all means. you fly turkish airline, you pay for ISIS, you fly Emirats you pay for ISIS, you buy Turkish product you pay for ISIS.
Turkey supports ISIS
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Turky instead of paying ransome for freeing it's citizen had promised ISIS to double their efforts in recruiting more young men from all over the world to join ISIS as they have been doing it since the inception!!!!
How odd. That was Turkey's pretense for staying out of intervening in Syria for fear of the hostages' lives. Now ISIS have removed that excuse completely, probably against their own strategic interest, at the very moment that Obama's coalition was falling apart. Perhaps they were assured that the target of the intervention is Assad. As long as they keep selling oil cheap and don't massacre minorities I don't see any reason to try to obliterate them. They might even be an improvement over the Saudi government, but that's a pretty low bar.
Turky perhaps didn't have to pay ransome to free up it's citizens! Instead perhaps they had promised ISIS double up their efforts in recruiting more young people for ISIS from all over the world as they have been doing it from the inception of the ISIS!!!!!