Related Hostage Crises
Turkish authorities meanwhile coped effectively with the hijackers of the Panamanian-registered ferry Avrazya, captured on January 16 by an armed group of nine Turkish citizens of Caucasian origin and sympathetic to the rebels besieged at Pervomaiskoye. Turkish authorities, in constant communication and negotiation with the captors and ignoring Russian demands for tough action, secured the safe release of the captives (177 mostly Russian passengers and a Turkish crew of 55), unharmed and the surrender of the gunmen without bloodshed.
In Chechnya's capital Grozny some 29 employees of a power plant, (Russians sent from Rostov), were kidnapped for ransom on January 17 by the group of Arbi Barayev. It was also reported that some 38 civilians, mostly ethnic Russians, had been kidnapped during the previous week in Chechnya's rebel-controlled Achkhoy-Martanovsky District and offered in exchange for Chechen fighters in Russian captivity and civilian Chechen inmates of Russian "filtration camps". Their release was negotiated later that month.
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