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A Comoros-flagged cargo ship measuring about 100 meters ran aground off Kisirkaya near Sariyer on the northern edge of Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait late Feb. 1, triggering a precautionary deployment by Turkish maritime teams while the vessel remained in place without requesting rescue assistance.
The vessel, identified as Razouk, was sailing in waters off the Bosphorus on its way to anchor at Constanta Port in Romania when it ran aground for reasons that had not been determined at the time of reporting.
The incident took place in the Bosphorus Strait, the narrow waterway linking the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara and serving as a key shipping corridor between European and Asian ports.
Following notification of the incident, teams affiliated with Turkish maritime authorities were dispatched to the area.
Work to free the vessel was reported as ongoing, although no cause for the grounding was provided in the initial information.
Officials said the ship did not submit a request for rescue assistance. Because no such request was made, responders were not able to intervene directly, but they were understood to have positioned themselves in the vicinity as a precautionary measure while the ship continued to wait grounded off the coast.
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