The hostages had been seized from the Turkish Consulate in Mosul, Iraq on June 11, when the Islamic State group overran the city in its surge to seize large swaths of Iraq and Syria.
Their release is in contrast to the recent beheadings of two U.S. journalists and a British aid worker by the Islamic State group, but details are not available on the actions that Turkey had taken to ensure the safe release of the hostages or the procedure adopted.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has remarked that the Turks were freed through "a successful operation."
Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc has clarified that the hostages were 49 Turkish consulate employees — 46 of them were Turks and three were local Iraqis. They included Consul General Ozturk Yilmaz, other diplomats, children and Special Forces police.
The hostages arrived in Sanliurfa which would go to indicate that they might have been moved from Iraq to Syria, demonstrating the Islamic State group's cross border reach.
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