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'Hijacker seizes Turkish plane'

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A hijacker who seized a Turkish plane on an internal flight has given himself up to the authorities, officials say.

The plane, with 178 people on board, including three babies, had been forced to land in Ankara.

It had been flying from the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in south-eastern Turkey to Istanbul.

According to plane's operators, the Turkish hijacker had claimed to have explosives on board. The motives for the hijack are not yet clear.

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Map of Turkey