Turkey warns citizens of traveling to Lebanon

Turkish officials said citizens were still at risk of being abducted in Lebanon, and warned them against traveling to the country. A group called Zuwar Al-Imam Al-Redha which claimed responsibility for the abduction of two Turkish pilots in Beirut more than two months ago in retaliation of kidnapping of Lebanese citizens in Syria, "plan to kidnap more Turkish citizens in Lebanon," Ihlas news agency quoted foreign ministry officials as saying. They said the Turkish citizens in Lebanon might be at risk after negotiations to release the two Turkish airmen reached a deadlock.