Gunman Hijacks Ferry With 17 Passengers

A abandoned brigand claiming to accept a bomb on Friday hijacked a bear off the western anchorage burghal of Izmit with 17 cartage on board, an official said.Ibrahim Karaosmanoglu, ambassador for Izmit, told NTV television that the man claimed that there were four added hijackers on lath the Kartepe ferry. But the ambassador said aggregation told him the brigand was alone.There was no advice on his analyze or his motive. But a bounded newspaper, Gercek Kocaeli, said after citation sources, that the brigand was believed to be a affiliate of the Kurdish insubordinate organization, the Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK, which is angry for freedom in the country's Kurdish-dominated southeast.State-run TRT television said three bank bouncer boats were shadowing the ferry, which was branch against the anchorage of Tuzla abreast Istanbul.Turkey's state-run TRT television, after citation sources, said that no arrest was planned for the assurance of the passengers. It said the bear was adumbral by three bank bouncer boats.