A boy rides his bicycle past a stadium being built by a Turkish company in Baghdad's Habibiya district September 2, 2015. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad
BAGHDAD/ANKARA (Reuters) - Gunmen in military uniform seized 18 Turkish workers from a sports stadium they were building in northeastern Baghdad on Wednesday, their company said, in what Ankara said appeared to have been a targeted kidnapping of its countrymen.
Diplomats have said Turkey could suffer reprisals after abandoning months of reticence to launch air strikes against Islamic State in neighbouring Syria and open its bases to a U.S.-led coalition fighting the Sunni Muslim militants.
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