Turkish hostage video shown
(CNN) -- For the second day this week, news footage Thursday showed members of an obscure militant group holding Turkish workers and issuing anti-coalition messages.
The video, obtained by Associated Press Television, shows the four kneeling in front of the masked, armed militants. The hostages were holding passports.
They are thought to be part of a group of seven Turks abducted in Iraq. A video shown on Tuesday showed three other Turks surrounded at gunpoint by militants.
In the Thursday footage, one of the militants read a statement saying that the four worked for a Turkish construction company called Serka in support of the coalition. CNN translated the statement, which was delivered in Arabic.
The militants called for Serka and other companies to cancel all of its contracts with the coalition and pull their employees from Iraq. These moves would spur the release of the hostages, the militants said.
The statement said the hostages will be treated humanely "in appreciation" of Turkish protests against U.S. troop prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and the activities of Israel, which is referred to by the speaker as the "Zionist entity."
Earlier this week, two other Turkish hostages and their Iraqi Turkoman driver -- also Serka employees -- were freed after they had been kidnapped Sunday night, the company said.
A Turkish and an Egyptian truck driver remain in captivity after they were abducted last week.
However, three Italians held hostage in Iraq for nearly two months arrived home to an emotional welcome on Wednesday.
