This article examines the repatriation process of the Soviet vessel Krasny Vodoley and its crew within the framework of Turkey's neutrality law in late 1941 and early 1942. The report dated 2 April 1942, authored by Captain A. A. Mihaylov, Deputy Naval Attach & eacute; of the USSR, constitutes a rare source that simultaneously documents diplomatic negotiations and local administrative practices. The document provides detailed insight into the decision-making processes of Turkish authorities concerning the interned Soviet ship and personnel, the interaction between the Soviet Embassy in Ankara (during the Vinogradov period) and local military command in Sinop, as well as the individual choices made by members of the ship's crew. By approaching the Krasny Vodoley case as a microhistory, the article argues that Turkey's neutrality policy during the war was shaped less by abstract norms of the law of war than by diplomatic bargaining and local administrative practices. At the same time, the refusal of part of the crew to return to the USSR blurred the distinction between the status of "interned military personnel" and that of "political refugees," thereby exposing the conceptual and practical limits of neutrality law. Drawing on Mihaylov's report preserved in the RGVA archive and situating it within the broader context of Turkish-Soviet diplomatic relations and the wartime geography of the Black Sea, this study seeks to reassess the internment regime by highlighting its intertwined legal and political dimensions.