The authorities are unable to contact the crew members.
The ship Kafkametler, with 12 people on board, disappeared in the Black Sea . Turkish authorities said it sank.
Channel 24 writes about this.
Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on November 20 that the tragedy occurred as a result of a storm at sea. There were 12 crew members on board the ship.
Ali Yerlikaya said that the ship lost contact after leaving the port in the Karadeniz Eregli district of Zonguldak. Then it crashed into a breakwater and sank.
Contact with the 12 crew members who were on the ship has not yet been established.
What is known about the tragedy
The Turkish cargo ship Kafkametler was heading from the Russian port of Temryuk with a cargo of ferroalloys, sent a distress signal in the morning near the city of Eregli and could not be contacted again. There were 12 crew members on board the cargo ship. It was also not possible to contact them.
It is reported that the ship's captain said before the incident that he was drifting towards the Ereğli military breakwater. Attempts to contact the ship were unsuccessful.
It is impossible to reach the specified location or establish close visual contact due to bad weather conditions.
Search and rescue operations will continue using air and sea depending on weather conditions, Turkey's General Directorate of Maritime Affairs said.
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