who is telling the truth Baghdad, or Ankara?
12/06/2014 22:40:00
Iraqi National News Agency reporting:
Turkish Consul is free and practice his consular functions from a house in Mosul
Mosul / NINA / Eyewitnesses in the city of Mosul, said on Friday that the Turkish Consul in Nineveh province (Ozturk Yilmaz) is free and practice his consulate functions naturally from a house downtown Mosul.
The eyewitnesses told the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA/ that the Consul, accompanied by a group of staff of the Turkish consulate was seen in a house in al-Zuhour neighborhood and he practices his duties to grant visas to Turkey, naturally nothing to do with the gunmen who occupy the city.
Yet Turkish media and Government reporting the militant ISIL kidnaping Turkish consulate and staff:
Hurriyet Forty-nine Turkish citizens, including the consul general in Mosul and several members of the Turkish special forces, were taken hostage by ISIL and transferred to an undisclosed place on June 11.
One hostage posted a message on an Internet forum used by Turkish special forces members, daily Vatan reported. The message states that ISIL besieged the compound with “900 specially trained commandos” as Turks in the compound positioned snipers on rooftops to resist.
“They had mortars, DShK and PK-type heavy machine guns, RPGs and four tanks that they stole from the Iraqi army. We told the Foreign Ministry that we would clash until we ran out of ammunition, but the Foreign