MV Mavi Marmara

The Mavi Marmara

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IMO 9005869

The Mavi Marmara ( Turkish for Blue Marmara Sea), is a passenger ship, which by its participation in the " Ship-to- Gaza convoy " was announced in May 2010.

History

The ship was in 1994 by the Istanbul Shipyard Türkiye Gemi Sanayii A.Ş. built and has a capacity of 1,080 passengers. Originally it was used as a ferry in the Marmara Sea. From 12 April 2007 was one of Istanbul's society İstanbul Deniz Otobüsleri A.Ş., after that it was from February 2009 to April 2010 in the possession of the city of Istanbul. In April 2010, the passenger ship was sold to the Turkish organization İnsan Hak ve Hürriyetleri ve Insani Yardım Vakfi ( IHH ) and taken on May 1, 2010, Comorian flag.

Ship-to- Gaza trip

The Mavi Marmara was acquired in 2010 by the IHH specifically for the trip to Gaza.

In May 2010, an international convoy of six ships, loaded with 10,000 tons of relief supplies and nearly 700 participants was organized on board. The six ships were deployed by various organizations, including the Free Gaza Movement, the Turkish IHH and the Greek initiative Boat for Gaza. The aim of the trip was to break the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza Strip and to transport aid to Gaza.

With the Mavi Marmara activists traveled 581, about 400 of them Turkish nationals.

On 31 May 2010, en route to Gaza, the Mavi Marmara was applied by the Israeli navy in international waters after it had previously announced to prevent the convoy from breaking through the blockade of the Gaza Strip. When boarding the Mavi Marmara nine activists were killed and injured over forty activists and seven Israeli soldiers. In those killed were eight Turks and a Turkish-born U.S. citizen.

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