Black Sea hostage crisis

Black Sea hostage crisis
Black Sea hostage crisis
Location	Trabzon, Turkey and the Black Sea
Date	16 – 19 January 1996; (3 days)
Target	MS Avrasaya
Attack type	Hostage crisis
Deaths	None
Injured	13 (including sicknesses)

The Black Sea hostage crisis took place January 16–19, 1996 on the Black Sea during the First Chechen War. The Panamanian-registered ferry Avrasaya with 177 passengers and 55 crew members on board was hijacked in a Turkish port of Trabzon by an international armed group, which threatened to kill the more than 100 Russian passengers unless the Russian forces ceased its attack against the Chechen separatists in the Kizlyar-Pervomayskoye hostage crisis.^[1]^[2]

The crisis ended without bloodshed after three days with the safe release of more than 219 unharmed captives; 13 people were hospitalized because of illness and injuries.

^ Pro-Chechen Ferry Hijackers Surrender to Turks Archived 2018-01-08 at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, January 20, 1996
^ Cite error: The named reference Siemaszko was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Kinzer-1] Pro-Chechen Ferry Hijackers Surrender to Turks Archived 2018-01-08 at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, January 20, 1996

[Siemaszko-2] Cite error: The named reference Siemaszko was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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