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(Milliyet Newspaper, 24 January 2021)
The Liberian-flagged M/V 'Mozart' cargo ship has been attacked by
pirates in the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa. Turkish captain Mustafa
Kaya was taking the 222-meter ship from Lagos, Nigeria, to Cape Town,
South Africa, when the pirates boarded about 100 miles northwest of
the Sao Tome & Principe Islands, taking 15 crewmembers hostage and
killing one of them.
The pirates were armed with long-barrel weapons and succeeded in
taking the 'Mozart' despite the captain's call for help because the
ship was 170 kilometers from any source of assistance. The pirates
changed the course of the 40,000 dead-weight-ton container ship,
which is managed by Boden Denizcilik of Istanbul, and left it in
the open waters off Nigeria, in the hands of ship's 4th captain and
two machinists.
An international search is underway for the Turkish crewmembers
taken hostage by the pirates. It is thought that a large mother ship
enabled the pirates to use heavy weapons so far from land. All
Turkish embassies in the region have been mobilized in response
to the incident and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu
has spoken with 4th Captain Furka Yaren about the seizure and the
current status of the ship by telephone.
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