ANKARA, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Turkish General Staff said on Friday that a Turkish frigate captured five pirates in an operation in the Aden Gulf, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
"TCG Gediz Frigate, assigned in the Aden Gulf under NATO command, launched an operation on a skiff getting ready for hijacking and captured five pirates," Metin Gurak, head of the Turkish General Staff's Communication Department, was quoted as saying.
A helicopter aboard TCG Gaziantep, a second Turkish frigate, backed the operation, Gurak added.
Ten days ago, one of the captains of a Turkish-flagged ship hijacked by Somali pirates contacted her family via a satellite phone to convey the hijackers' ransom demand.
Somali pirates hijacked the Turkish-flagged "Horizon-1" with 23Turkish crew on July 8 in the Aden Gulf when the ship was en route to Jordan from Saudi Arabia.
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