{"id":10161,"date":"2009-03-17T04:19:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T01:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=10161"},"modified":"2013-10-12T22:40:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:40:23","slug":"turkish-danish-ships-repel-pirate-attack-off-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/03\/17\/turkish-danish-ships-repel-pirate-attack-off-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish, Danish Ships Repel Pirate Attack Off Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA (AFP) \u2014 Turkish and Danish warships intercepted an attack by pirates on a Vietnamese cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden, the Turkish army chief of staff said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Two Turkish helicopters helped repel Sunday&#8217;s attack on the M\/V Diamond Falcon off Yemen&#8217;s southern coast after the Vietnamese boat issued a distress signal, an army statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The Danish navy told AFP that the pirates, who attacked on two speedboats, fled, and that no arrests were made.<\/p>\n<p>It added that the attack took place in a busy fishing zone, making it easier for the pirate craft to disguise their intent.<\/p>\n<p>The statement did not give their nationality, but more than 100 attacks last year in one of the world&#8217;s busiest shipping lanes have mostly been blamed on Somali pirates.<\/p>\n<p>The United States, European Union countries, China and Russia have already deployed naval vessels to the region.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0 <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5jaAhr6x78hSNEr5Tfj8D6Cn3SCaQ\">www.google.com<\/span>, 16 March 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA (AFP) \u2014 Turkish and Danish warships intercepted an attack by pirates on a Vietnamese cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden, the Turkish army chief of staff said Monday. Two Turkish helicopters helped repel Sunday&#8217;s attack on the M\/V Diamond Falcon off Yemen&#8217;s southern coast after the Vietnamese boat issued a distress signal, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":776961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,89],"tags":[8281],"class_list":["post-10161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-denmark","category-turkey","tag-piracy-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}