* Eighteen staff withdrawn to Kuwait * Precaution after storming of Mosul
consulate * Forty-nine Turks still held by militants (Recasts with
Basra consulate evacuation) ANKARA, June 17 (Reuters) -
Turkey evacuated its
consulate in the southern Iraqi city of
Basra on Tuesday, less than a week after its mission in the **rthern city of Mosul was overrun by militants who seized diplomats, soldiers and children. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on his Twitter account that the
Basra staff had been evacuated to Kuwait due to an increased security risk.
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