Released Turkish workers attend a press conference held by Turkish Ambassador to Iraq, Faruk Kaymakci, left, at Turkish embassy, Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday.

Sixteen Turkish workers kidnapped from a construction site in Baghdad and held for nearly a month were released on Wednesday, Turkey’s prime minister and Iraqi officials said.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said through his Twitter account that the workers were handed over to the Turkish ambassador in Iraq and that they were all in good health. He did not provide information on the circumstances of the release.

In Baghdad, the spokesman for the city’s military command, Brig. Gen. Saad Maan confirmed the release and said the Turkish workers were now inside the Turkish Embassy.

The men, employed by Turkish construction company Nurol Insaat, were part of a group of 18 Turkish workers snatched in Baghdad’s Shiite-dominated Sadr City on Sept. 2. After their abduction, a video from a previously unknown militant group showed the hostages and demanded that Turkey halt the flow of militants into Iraq, stop the passage of oil from Iraq’s northern Kurdish region via Turkish territory and lift what was described as a “siege” on Syrian cities.

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