another convicted terrorist was onboard the mavi marmara one of the men on the mavi marmara spent three years in a turkish prison for hijacking a ferry in the black sea in this indicates just who the activists were on the boat that tried to break the gaza blockade on may foreign ministry officials said monday the turkish newspaper hurrieyt reported over the weekend that erdinc tekir who was hurt during the idf raid on the boat was among the ninemember team that hijacked the black sea ferry to bring the war in chechneya to the world s attention tekir spent some three and a half years in prison for the incident