ANKARA, April 10, 2007 (AFP) - A man hijacked a Turkish airliner on Tuesday and forced it to land in Ankara where the deputy governor said the hijacker planned to give himself up to authorities.
A woman on Tuesday hijacked a Turkish passenger jet flying between Istanbul and the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir and the plane has landed in Ankara, Turkey television reported.
The plane was run by the Pegasus airline.
The demands made by the hijacker were not immediately known, the reports said.