The appearance of Putin's yacht was noticed in the waters of Turkey

Against the background of deteriorating Russian-Turkish relations, after the attack on the Su-24 bomber, which canceled the trip of the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov to Turkey, the yacht "Chaika", belonging to the Office of the President of Russia, entered the territorial waters of Turkey, sailing through the Bosphorus in the Sea of ​​Marmara. It is possible that the ship goes to wintering in Croatia, as last year.

"Seagull" can be tracked in real time on the portal MarineTraffic. According to the signals received from the ship, it called at the port of Istanbul.

Photos of the yacht appeared on Twitter. One of the users, referring to the Automatic Identification System (AIS), which serves in navigation to identify vessels, their size, course and other data using radio waves of a VHF band, пишетthat the ship is heading to Split (a city in Croatia). He published a snapshot of "The Seagulls", claiming that she came out of the Black Sea, passing through the Bosphorus.

According to MarineTraffic, the final destination of the yacht "The Seagull" is really Split. In the Croatian city she should arrive November 30 in 15: 00 local time.

In Split, "The Seagull" was already: according to the Croatian portal Croatia WeekThe vessel stopped at the city’s port for the winter in November 2014. One month of parking was then worth six thousand euros, and, according to the portal, everything was paid in advance.

As the Russian Maritime Register, the yacht "Seagull" was previously called "Sirius" and was built in 2009 year in Turkey. It belongs to the company for the supply of products of the Office of the President of the Russian Federation. Its port of registry is in Sochi, the flag is to Russia. Displacement of the pleasure yacht 679 tons, length - 54 meters. The Seagull can reach speeds up to 18 nodes per hour. 12 passengers may be on board at the same time.

About the yacht "Seagull", which is associated with Putin, in the press periodically appeared publications. So, in the summer of 2013, the portal BlackSea News wrote that at the maritime station Sochi "hiding the megayacht" of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. Ukrainian portal Vzglyad.ua noted in the spring of 2014 of the year that the yacht that serves the president of Russia, after wintering, went out to the Adriatic Sea. The “Seagull” in the winter of 2013 — 2014 of the year stood in the Greek port of Lavrion in the Aegean Sea.

In 2012, the oppositionist Boris Nemtsov in report “The life of a slave in galleys,” telling about the life of Vladimir Putin, revealed that the president has a “mini-flotilla” consisting of “four luxurious ships”. She, according to Nemtsov, was estimated at three billion rubles.

Previously, the "Forum" reported that the Turks shot down Russian bomber who violated Turkish airspace. One pilot was killed, the second was saved by the Russian military, who are now in Syria.

American edition of The New York Times compared versions of the incident with the downed Russian bomber Su-24 voiced by Turkey and Russia. Turkey and Russia offered conflicting versions of the events that led to the forced landing of a Russian combat aircraft.