ANKARA
The Turkish monitor working in Ukraine, Mehmet Kilic who was released on Friday, met Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Ankara on Monday.
Kikic was part of a 100-strong mission working for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe when he and eight of his colleagues were captured by armed rebels in a hotel in downtown Donetsk and held for 33 days.
The released observers -- from Turkey, Switzerland, Estonia and Denmark -- had been sent to Ukraine to monitor an agreement reached in Geneva in April to ease tensions in eastern Ukraine between the government forces and pro-Russian separatists.
Kilic thanked the Turkish government and the foreign minister for their efforts in his release.
The remaining four are still in captivity in the neighboring region of Luhansk.
Davutoglu described the moment he learned that Kilic was released as "one of the happiest days of his life".
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