A woman held hostage by Islamic State has described the confusion inside the Turkish consulate in Mosul as militants began taking prisoners.

Forty-six Turkish hostages returned to Ankara, months after Islamic State militants stormed the Turkish consulate in Mosul.

Fatma Koksal, a cook for the consulate, recalled:

"People wearing black outfits with their faces covered entered. They assured us that they were not going to harm us. They took all of our belongings and told us to leave and go out to the street. They told us that they were bringing us somewhere. We thought that they were bringing us to our homeland but then we realized they were taking us to the place where they would hold us."

They would spend 101 days as hostages.

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