ANKARA
On the night of March 4-5, 2018, a U.S.-flagged luxury yacht was intercepted by gunboats in international waters, 50 nautical miles (92 kilometers) off the Indian coast of Goa. In a plot that looked ripped from a Hollywood thriller, heavily armed masked men threw gas shells into the boat to maim passengers before seizing the cruiser, the Nostromo.
In a swift operation, they transferred two women to their boat: Princess Latifa, the daughter of Dubai’s ruler and United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and her Finnish fitness trainer Tiina Jauhiainen.
Exactly two years
