Five men are detained on a Turkish frigate after shadowing two commercial vessels in the Gulf of Aden's maritime patrol zone. (SETimes.com, 08/12/09)
The Gaziantep used commandos and one or more helicopters to make the arrest. Pirate equipment was found aboard the skiff operated by the arrested men. (AFP, 08/11/09)
This is a project preliminary to the publication of the Somali Piracy Yearbook 2009 on 1/21/09 which follows the Somali Piracy Yearbook 2008 available from Amazon.
This blog has two kinds of entries, labeled INCIDENT and COMMENT. In the case of INCIDENT entries, the time/date stamp is the date of the incident not the date of posting. In the case of COMMENT entries, the time/date info is as of posting.