Taliban frees remaining 4 Turkish engineers

The Taliban in Afghanistan announced on Tuesday that the group had released the remaining four of eight Turkish engineers kidnapped last month, Turkish Today's Zaman newspaper reported. On Sunday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said four of the eight Turkish kidnapped by Taliban militants had been released, adding that the Turkish government was negotiating with Taliban on the releasing of the remaining four people. The eight Turkish engineers, along with an Afghan and two pilots from Russia and Kyrgyzstan, were onboard a Russian Mi-8 helicopter when it landed in a remote part of Logar province in eastern Afghanistan due to bad weather in April. They were later taken captive by Taliban who controls the area.