Dozens of hostages captured when Islamic State (Isis) fighters seized the Turkish consulate in Mosul in June have been freed and returned to Turkey.
The 49 hostages were captured in the Iraqi city on 11 June as Isis seized control of large swaths of Iraq and Syria.
Their fate contrasts with the recent beheadings of two US journalists and a British aid worker by the Islamic militants.
The official Anadolu news agency reported that no ransom had been paid and "no conditions were accepted in return for their release". It also said there were five or six previous attempts to secure the hostages' release that had been unsuccessful.
