Turkey said the ship, which sailed from Russia, sank in the Black Sea: there were 12 people on board

The ship Kafkametler sank in the Black Sea / Collage 24 Channel (Photo kafkametler.com and AA)

The day before, the Kafkametler vessel, with 12 people on board, disappeared in the Black Sea. Turkish authorities said it sank.

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.

What the Turkish authorities said about the tragedy

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. – said the head of the Turkish Ministry of Internal Affairs.

By the way, on November 19, the region was engulfed by a powerful storm. Due to bad weather, aircraft and ships could not begin search operations.

What preceded this

• Foreign journalists wrote on November 19 that the cargo ship Kafkametler had stopped communicating off the Black Sea coast. There were 12 crew members on board.
• The incident occurred during a storm. The captain of the Kafkametler vessel was able to report on the morning of November 19 that the ship was drifting towards the breakwater near Eregli in the Zonguldak province in northwestern Turkey.
• After this, the crew stopped communicating. Due to bad weather, Türkiye could not launch a search operation.