{"id":8982,"date":"2009-02-06T04:36:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T01:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=8982"},"modified":"2013-10-12T22:35:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:35:49","slug":"turkey-to-send-warships-to-gulf-of-aden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/02\/06\/turkey-to-send-warships-to-gulf-of-aden\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey to send warships to Gulf of Aden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2009\/02\/05\/europe\/EU-Piracy-Turkey.php#\">ANKARA, Turkey<\/span>:<\/strong> Turkey&#8217;s Cabinet says it has decided to deploy navy ships in the Gulf of Aden to help protect cargo vessels from\u00a0pirates.<\/p>\n<p>The government says it sent a decree to the parliament for approval on Thursday. The decision comes after the release of the third Turkish cargo ship held by pirates off the Somali coast earlier this week. Parliament is expected to vote and approve the decree next\u00a0week.<\/p>\n<p>A Turkish frigate already had served in the region under NATO, but the mission of that ship has expired and Turkey wants to contribute to anti-piracy efforts\u00a0further.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, pirates attacked 111 ships in the waterway, hijacking 42 of them and receiving tens of millions of dollars in\u00a0ransoms.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0 <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2009\/02\/05\/europe\/EU-Piracy-Turkey.php\">International Herald Tribune<\/span>,  February 5, 2009<\/p>\n<div class=\"dots\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey: Turkey&#8217;s Cabinet says it has decided to deploy navy ships in the Gulf of Aden to help protect cargo vessels from\u00a0pirates. The government says it sent a decree to the parliament for approval on Thursday. The decision comes after the release of the third Turkish cargo ship held by pirates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":68135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[8281],"class_list":["post-8982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-piracy-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8982","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=8982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}