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They were eight Turkish engineers, one Afghan man and the two pilots of the Russian-made helicopter.
Turkish engineers are helping people who live in substandard housing in earthquake zones to fortify their walls using discarded tires.
Two Turkish engineers and an Afghan translator kidnapped in December were rescued by the Afghan police, the Interior Minister announced.
The insurgents still hold four of the Turkish engineers, along with three others from the helicopter: an interpreter and two pilots.
Clad in red overalls bearing the logo of Turkish Petroleum, Ekrem Akyuz, 29, one of the Turkish engineers overseeing the site, shared a watermelon with colleagues in one of the dozens of air-conditioned trailers that surround the drilling rig.
In November, Turkish engineers working at the city power station were kidnapped by unidentified gunmen, as was a Pakistani engineer at the station who went missing this month, according to local news media reports.
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Just three weeks ago, the Taliban, after lengthy, quiet negotiations by the Turkish government, handed over unharmed a Turkish engineer who had been abducted two years earlier, according to a statement by Zabiullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman for the north and east.
A Turkish engineer and his Afghan guard were killed on the new American-built highway linking Kabul and Kandahar, Afghan and Turkish officials said.
A second Turkish engineer and his driver were believed kidnapped.
"There are not any Kurdish engineers for a big project like this," Ahmed Shahin, the Turkish engineering manager, said.
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