| The bodies of two Turkish hostages shot dead have been found in Baiji in northern Iraq, Al-Jazeera television said Friday night in a news flash. Quoting its own unspecified sources, the Qatar-based satellite news channel said "the bodies of two Turkish hostages executed by gunfire have been found in Baiji," a key oil refinery town in the Sunni Muslim belt that stretches north and west from the Iraqi capital. It did not immediately give further details. The reported execution of the two Turks comes just a day after the killing of kidnapped Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni. Turkey`s NTV news channel on Wednesday aired footage of two Turks, Abdullah Ozdemir and Ali Daskin, both engineers kidnapped from their worksite at an unidentified location in Iraq. The video showed armed militants threatening to execute them unless their company withdraws from Iraq within 72 hours. Turkey`s Anatolia news agency later reported that the pair`s employer had announced it was ending operations in Iraq. |