[ad_1]
The Turkish Ambassador to Gabon said goodbye to three sailors unconcerned by Nilufer, the flight schedule of Turkish Airlines Libreville-Istanbul with its scheduled flights arriving in Istanbul in the order of 03:30. Sailors who entered the Istanbul Airport VIP Lounge were greeted by officials from the shipping company they work with.
The sailors, full of fear and going through difficult times, told members of the press who were waiting for them at the exit, about the incident and what happened afterwards. Furkan Yaren, who was the fourth captain of the ship, thanked President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Adil Karaismailoğlu, who were in contact with them from the first moment thanks to their satellite phone . Yaren, “They call me constantly by satellite phone. I want to thank the captain of the company. Now I will reach my family, I hope. I set foot in Turkey. I saw the Turkish flag. I am very happy. I hope that other friends in the short time that they are reunited with their families, ”he said.
“WE TRY TO TAKE THE BOAT SAFELY TO THE NEAREST PLACE”
class = “cf”>
On a question about what happened during the pirate attack, Yaren said: “We have pre-drilled drills. We have procedures. When the first alarm sounded, it was not a drill. We all started rushing to the safe zone.” . At that point, we started to carry everything we could. Our security doors, our ballistic doors. We close. We started waiting for help there, “he said.
Stating that the pirates could not give a figure of how many people there were, Yaren said that after the pirates left the ship, they tried to get the ship to the nearest place safely by leaving their place.
Furkan Yaren stated that the ship’s systems were damaged and that the support team arriving at the ship began to repair the damage. Saying that they were very sorry for the loss of one of their colleagues on board, Yaren said:
“I don’t remember much about the warmth of the incident. I gave the necessary information to the authorities. It is very painful. I don’t want to tell anything here. I look forward to reuniting with my family. Minor injuries. Other than that, I don’t have much. Thank God for my health. “
THANKS TO PRESIDENT ERDOĞAN
class = “cf”>
Furkan Yaren recalled his phone conversation with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, “God bless him. He followed him constantly. We communicated with him 4 or 5 times. He asked us about our status. He said he would bring our friends back. They were very interested. In us “. They used expressions.
“They scanned, they shot, it was like a horror movie …”
Süha Tatlıgül, the ship’s chief engineer, stated that they went “full way” after the attack began. Tatlıgül said the following:
“Even though we gave full step, they caught 15 minutes later. I think the speedboats were 26-27 knots … They caught it from the dock side. They threw the ladder to the deck. The height was 10-15 meters. Which , the cavalry captain fell. We immediately locked ourselves in the helm room. Like a horror movie. They fired continuously. They crawled. They beat with sledgehammers for hours. He groaned like that for 7 hours. At last they started cutting With a stone engine . They fired unconsciously. As everyone ran to the side, God bless our second engineer died. We looked inside. They were getting in good while trying to climb with ropes. There was a six foot gap there. I fell and got out of there. Other friends got it. they took. I left half an hour after they left. “
Süha Tatlıgül answered the question “Did they deliberately leave you on the boat?”
“15 OUR FRIENDS IS POW”
class = “cf”>
Bahadır Yeşilalan, who served as Yağcı, said: “Many thanks to my government. I would also like to thank my President, our Foreign Minister, our ambassador to Gabon. He was always with us. There is nothing to” our friends are prisoners. When they talked too much, they actually hurt their families, “he said.
3 sailors got into the vehicles of those responsible for the company after the statement and left the airport to meet their families.
KORSAN SALDIRISI …
The Turkish container ship Mozart, which was sailing in the Gulf of Guinea off Nigeria, a West African country, was hijacked by pirates last Sunday. The ship was reportedly owned by Istanbul-based company Boden Shipping and was sailing from Lagos, Nigeria to Cape Town, South Africa. In the attack by the pirates, 15 crew members of the ship were kidnapped and a sailor, a citizen of Azerbaijan, died after the pirates opened fire.
