Turkish nationalist threatens to blow up ferry
Police have detained an armed man who briefly held up a ferry and threatened to blow it up in protest against pro-Armenian slogans chanted at a murdered journalist’s funeral, a provincial official said today.
The man, claiming to have plastic explosives on him, seized the ferry in the Dardanelles strait as it was on its way from Gelibolu to Lapseki late last night, said Yusuf Ziya Ince, deputy governor of Canakkale province. Ince identified the hijacker as Nihat Acar.
