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Turkish jet hijackers surrender

Passengers aboard the plane managed to phone out on mobiles

Two men who hijacked a Turkish airliner flying from Tirana to Istanbul have surrendered after the Boeing 737 landed at Brindisi in southern Italy.
The motive for their action is unclear, with conflicting reports of either a protest against the Pope or an attempt to seek asylum in Italy.
Reports say Italian fighter planes forced the airliner to land.
All the Turkish Airlines plane's 107 passengers - including beauty contest entrants - are said to be unhurt.
We saw a man wearing track-suit bottoms and a hat go to the cockpit door and pause there, thinking


Ermir Hoxha
Passenger, speaking by mobile phone from plane


The hijackers were reported to have been protesting against the Pope's planned visit to Turkey in November.
However, confirming the surrender, Brindisi Police Chief Salvatore De Paolis told Reuters news agency that the two men wanted political asylum.
A Greek defence official who spoke to Reuters said the plane had entered Greek air space at 1758 (1458 GMT) and four Greek fighters had been scrambled to escort it.
The Italian air force in turn sent up two F-16s to intercept the plane, and reportedly forced it to land.
'Christian convert'
Both hijackers are said by Turkish media to be Turks.


Candan Karlitekin, chairman of Turkish Airlines' board of directors, said no-one had been hurt and the hijackers had apparently not threatened passengers.
Asked if the hijacking was a protest against the papal visit, Mr Karliteken told Turkish TV channel NTV: "The cockpit was told that it was a protest of this nature."
A speech by Pope Benedict XVI, in which he quoted a 14th-Century Byzantine emperor who had suggested a link between Islam and violence, sparked angry protests in Turkey and other mainly Muslim countries last month.
But Turkish television later said one of the hijackers had converted to Christianity and was a conscientious objector, Reuters reports.
It said he had sent a letter to the Pope in late August, asking for his help to avoid compulsory military service in Turkey.
It quoted the letter as reading: "I am a Christian and I do not want to serve in a Muslim army."
The Vatican says it has been keep informed of developments by the authorities. They insist that despite concerns over the Pope's safety for his forthcoming trip, they are still planning to go ahead.
'Track-suit man'
Ergun Ozkeseoglu, a passenger who phoned told Turkish NTV television from the plane, said one of the hijackers had waved and apologised to applauding passengers as he left the plane.
Miss India is among four beauty queens on the plane


He had seen no weapons but had noticed a passenger repeatedly entering the cockpit and "and giving orders to the stewards".
One Albanian passenger told Albanian TV that nobody had been informed of the hijacking.
Ermir Hoxha, a journalist who was also aboard, described one of the suspected hijackers for his television channel, Albania's Top-Channel TV. He said he had not seen any weapon.
"We gathered something was amiss when we saw a man wearing track-suit bottoms and a hat go to the cockpit door and pause there, thinking," he said.
However, passengers were served food and drinks in mid-journey and were subsequently were shown the emergency exits, he said. Contestants in an international beauty pageant, Globe International 2006, were among the passengers, according to the Albanian event's press spokesman. Miss India, Miss Singapore, Miss Malaysia and Miss Philippines were on the flight, the spokesman told the BBC's Asian Network.

Wonderful. I'm glad to hear they converted to a good religion and will not serve in a muslim army. That is good news.

sweetie don't change the topic.. stick to what you have posted..

so now tell me who are the hijackers?? christians or muslims.. so should the world laugh at christian's stupidity??

At least they didn't hurt anyone and they didn't fly 4 planes full of people into buildings murdering 3000 people. Muslims are still more stupid than Christians.

is that all you could say to backup yourself?? even if you were right people will laugh at you like this

It's the truth. No one was hurt. The last time we had muslims hijack planes in this country they murdered 3000 people and did billions of dollars in damage. That's nothing to laugh at.

Nobody's laughing at 9/11... but YOU on the other hand are what we call a tragicomedy.

And you are what we call a terrorist sympathizer.

hahahahahaha.. no no.. i am no sympathiser of terrorists.. if i was, i would fully approve of your violent opinions..

As it is i do not .. i try to talk sense to you and make you realize that all humans are the same. But if you wish to stick to your medieval concepts about good and bad then be my guest. But you are about as relevant in today's world as full-body armour and jousting as a military discipline.

ssshhhhhh little man.. people with sense are speaking..

No, not all humans are the same. There are evil people in this world. If you had any sense, you wouldn't be another fucked up muslim. See! I can insult just like you. Keep it up.