Minister’s claims: ‘Kurdish rebels hijack Turkish ferry’
Four or five hijackers claiming to be Kurdish rebels seized control on Friday of a ferry carrying 20 passengers.
ISTANBUL:
Four or five hijackers claiming to be Kurdish rebels seized control on Friday of a ferry carrying 20 passengers and crew off northwestern Turkey, said Turkish Transport Minister Binali Yildirim.
“We think they are four or five... They say they belong to a branch of the terrorist organisation,” he told ATV television station, naming it as the military command of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Published in The Express Tribune, November 12th, 2011.
Four or five hijackers claiming to be Kurdish rebels seized control on Friday of a ferry carrying 20 passengers and crew off northwestern Turkey, said Turkish Transport Minister Binali Yildirim.
“We think they are four or five... They say they belong to a branch of the terrorist organisation,” he told ATV television station, naming it as the military command of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Published in The Express Tribune, November 12th, 2011.