| Passenger ferry HSC KARTEPE has been hijacked by terrorists in Turkey. |
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| Written by Łukasz Droń |
| Friday, 11 November 2011 22:51 |
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About 05:45 local time fast passenger ferry HSC KARTEPE has been hijacked with 20 passengers and 6 crew members. According to BBC source, the ferry was attacked during the cruise at Marmara Sea from Izmir to Golcuk. Hijackers forced the vessel commander to do interview for Turkish television in which he provided information that aggressors are from Kurdistan Workers’ Party and brought explosives on board. They are going to detonate it in case of hostage rescue and retake the vessel trial. So far there is no precise information about amount of hijackers and their captives. The similar incident had taken place in 2007 in Turkey on 28-th of January. One armed man hijacked the ferry with 80 people on board in Dardanele Strait. The gunman has been threating that he would have destroyed the vessel as a protest against pro - Armenian attitude which appeared in Turkey after a famous journalist – Armenian by origin Hrant Dink assassination. It turned out that the hijacker was a former sergeant of Turkish army. After two hours he surrendered. |
| Last Updated on Friday, 11 November 2011 23:24 |
