Kidnapped Turkish sailors released, reports say

Their container ship, the Paksoy-1, had been sailing from Cameroon to Ivory Coast when the pirates boarded the ship in the Gulf of Guinea. Numan Paksoy, from the ship's management company Kadıoğlu Maritime, said"about 12 pirates with heavy guns attacked the boat".

He told the BBC that the crew members hid in a safe room - the citadel - when the pirates boarded the ship but they emerged after the assailants"threatened to burn the ship and kill all of them".The ship later docked in the port of Tema, in Ghana. According to the International Maritime Bureau, the Gulf of Guinea is the most dangerous sea in the world for piracy, with 73% of all sea kidnappings and 92% of hostage-takings occurring in the Gulf off the coasts of Nigeria, Guinea, Togo, Benin, and Cameroon.

Separately, four Turkish nationals who were also kidnapped in Nigeria's Kwara State on 19 July were rescued on 26 July, Turkey's state media channel TRT news reported.BBC Africa Experts: Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea

thrown back-after bigger fish

A lot of Turkish delight no doubt.

If this had been the Uk, the Gov would have offered legal aid to the pirates in which to help them settle in the Uk. I mean they did with the Afgans who hijacked a plane to Stanstead

Quite a relief

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