Washington (AP) – Doctoral Students at Princeton University Invited in Iraq in 2023 While conducting the research, she was released and handed over to US authorities, her family and President Donald Trump said Tuesday.
Elizabeth Tulkov, a citizen of Israel and Russia, was detained for more than 900 days after being lured in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, in March 2003.
In the past few months, officials from several countries, including the Iraqi foreign minister and deputy prime minister, confirmed she was alive and has been detained in Iraq by a Shia Muslim militant group called Kataeb Hezbollah, according to her sister. The group has not claimed the temptation and Iraqi officials have not publicly stated which group is responsible.
“All my family are incredibly happy. I can’t wait to meet Elizabeth and give her all the love she’s been waiting to share for 903 days,” a statement from her sister Emma thanked Adam Berer, the special envoy of the US hostage issue, among other things.
Emma Tulkov said Elizabeth lost contact with her sister in late March 2023 after meeting sources at a coffee shop in the central neighborhood of Body. Elizabeth Tulkov was more vulnerable after being operated on for the slid disc eight days ago, her sister said. She was supposed to remove the stitches two days after the invitation, but faced a long road in physical therapy in Princeton, New Jersey.
The only direct evidence of Elizabeth Tulkov’s life in her captivity is Video broadcast in November 2023 It was distributed on Iraqi television stations to Iranian social media aimed at showing her.
