Sources from the Turkish Prime Ministry quoted Abadi as saying his government was doing everything to save the kidnapped workers, according to state-run Anadolu Agency.
Davutoğlu thanked his Iraqi counterpart for Iraqi security forces' efforts to save the workers, the sources said.
The workers "were there not just to earn their livelihood, but also to contribute to the reconstruction of the Iraqi economy and Iraq", Davutoğlu reportedly told Abadi.
Separately, a commission of three Turkish MPs established by the parliamentary group of the Republican Peoples' Party (CHP) was scheduled to fly to Baghdad on Sept. 4 to monitor the rescue efforts and contribute to the ongoing operation.
A total of 18 Turkish workers were kidnapped in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş said Sept. 2.
He said that they were employed with a Turkish construction company in Baghdad.
Turkish Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirlioğlu said on Sept. 3 that the kidnapping was not the work of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
“What we know is that it is not [the work of] one of the terrorist organizations we are familiar with; it is not Daesh [ISIL] or the PKK,” Sinirlioğlu told media at the Turkish parliament.
Iraq probes Shi'ite militia over kidnapping
Iraqi security forces investigating the abduction of 18 Turkish construction workers raided the Baghdad headquarters of a powerful Iranian-backed Shiite militia overnight, security sources and officials told Reuters on Sept. 4.
Gunmen in military uniform had seized the Turks on Sept. 2 from a sports stadium they were building in northeastern Baghdad, in what Ankara said appeared to have been a targeted kidnapping....
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5/9/15
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