Ahmad 
A 69-meter-long Turkish cargo ship sank on Thursday in the Sea of Marmara, southwest of the Turkish island of Imrali.
The Turkish Directorate General of Coastal Safety announced the start of efforts to rescue the ship’s crew of 6 people, who are Turkish citizens.
“The fast rescue boats of the General Directorate of Coastal Safety of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure were immediately directed to the scene of the accident,” the directorate said in a statement. The 69-meter-long vessel, named Batuhan A, was submerged in the southwest of Imrali Island in the Sea of Marmara.
A Turkish local official said that efforts are continuing intensively to rescue the crew of the ship, which sank due to water leakage, adding that the height of the waves in the area where the ship sank approached 3 meters, explaining that it sank off the coast of the Kursunlu district in the Karagabi region, 3.5 miles from shore.