Militants in Iraq Threaten to Execute Turkish Hostage
VOA News
19 Aug 2004, 14:30 UTC
Militants holding a Turkish truck driver hostage in Iraq, have threatened to execute him if his employer does not pull out of Iraq within 72 hours.
But transport company Bilintur says it has already withdrawn all of its workers from Iraq, following the murder by militants earlier this month of another employee, Murat Yuce.
In the video shown on Turkish television, hostage Aytullah Gezman pleads for help from his family and Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Mr. Gezman was kidnapped more than three weeks ago.
Late Wednesday, al-Jazeera television broadcast a videotape in which Iraqi militants threatened to kill an American hostage unless U.S. forces leave the Iraqi city of Najaf. A group of militants who call themselves the Martyrs Brigades say they abducted journalist Micah Garen last week.
Some information for this report provided by AFP and AP.
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