Body of Azerbaijani national killed in pirate attack on Turkish ship to be sent home on Jan. 26 - MFA

  24 January 2021    Read: 831
 Body of Azerbaijani national killed in pirate attack on Turkish ship to be sent home on Jan. 26 - MFA

The body of Azerbaijani citizen Farman Ismayilov, born in 1976, who was killed in a pirate attack on a Turkish ship, is approaching the Port-Gentil, Gabon, Leyla Abdullayeva, spokesperson for Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry told AzVision.az.

Abdullayeva said appropriate measures will be taken to deliver the body of the deceased to his homeland on the basis of mutual coordination with the Turkish side.

“Through the Turkish Embassy in Gabon, the body of Farman Ismayilov will be sent to the capital city of Libreville, after which it is planned to send it to Azerbaijan via Turkey on January 26 by the first Turkish Airlines flight,” the spokesperson added.

A Turkish cargo ship was attacked by pirates off the coast Guinea late Saturday during which 15 sailors were kidnapped and one Azerbaijani sailor was killed.

 

 


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