On 16 January 1996 , a Turkish passenger ship carrying 200 Russian passengers was taken over by what were mostly Turkish gunmen who were seeking to publicize the Chechen cause . On 6 March , a Cypriot passenger jet was hijacked by Chechen sympathisers while flying toward Germany . Both of these incidents were resolved through negotiations , and the hijackers surrendered without any fatalities being inflicted
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Black Sea hostage crisis
First Chechen War