{"id":37331,"date":"2026-08-08T09:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/37331\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:16:07","slug":"turkish-flagged-cargo-ship-hit-by-drone-off-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/37331\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish-flagged cargo ship hit by drone off Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANKARA
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A Turkish-flagged dry cargo ship<\/a> was hit by a drone off Russia\u2019s Black Sea<\/a> port of Novorossiysk, damaging the vessel but causing no casualties, according to reports.<\/p>\n

The drone struck the accommodation area of the MV G\u00fcll\u00fck while it was sailing toward the Russian port of Taman. None of the crew members was killed or injured.<\/p>\n

The vessel continued toward Istanbul, where it is expected to undergo a technical inspection and repairs.<\/p>\n

Neither Russian nor Ukrainian authorities had commented on the incident, and responsibility remained unclear.<\/p>\n

The attack came days after the Turkish-owned civilian ships Ya\u015far and Nadezhda were targeted by drones after leaving Novorossiysk on Aug. 3. Several crew members, including Turkish citizens, were injured, T\u00fcrkiye<\/a>\u2019s Foreign Ministry said.<\/p>\n

The ministry warned that the spread of the Russia-Ukraine war further into the Black Sea was threatening civilian shipping and could have \u201cmultifaceted negative repercussions, including for food security<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

It urged the warring parties to take concrete steps to ensure safe navigation.<\/p>\n

On July 22, the Turkish-flagged dry cargo ship Reyhan Sar\u0131 was hit by a drone while transporting coal from Taman to Trabzon. One crew member was killed and three others were injured, according to Turkish maritime reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANKARA \u00a0 A Turkish-flagged dry cargo ship was hit by a drone off Russia\u2019s Black Sea port of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1075,413,11265,56,70],"class_list":["post-37331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-turkiye","tag-black-sea","tag-security","tag-ship","tag-trkiye","tag-turkish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}