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'Hijacker seizes Turkish plane' Turkish hijacker gives himself up
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A hijacker who seized a Turkish plane on an internal flight has given himself up to the authorities, officials say. A hijacker who seized a Turkish plane on an internal flight has given himself up to the authorities.
The plane, with 178 people on board, including three babies, had been forced to land in Ankara. The aircraft, with 178 people on board, was forced to land in Ankara after the pilot issued a distress signal indicating it had been hijacked.
It had been flying from the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in south-eastern Turkey to Istanbul. No-one was hurt. The jet had been going to Istanbul from the mainly Kurdish south-eastern city of Diyarbakir.
According to plane's operators, the Turkish hijacker had claimed to have explosives on board. The motives for the hijack are not yet clear. The Turkish hijacker had claimed to have explosives on board. The motives for the hijack are not yet clear.
There was loud applause among passengers when they heard that the hijacker had given himself up, says the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Ankara.
Some reports suggested he wanted to be taken to Iran.
The hijacker was named as Mehmet Goksin Gol by the Anatolia news agency.