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The governor communicated with the captain during the incident
The hijacker claims he is armed with explosives
The only demand was to show the hijacking on television, an official says
Security forces killed a man who hijacked a ferry in northwest Turkey and demanded the incident be shown on live television, authorities said Saturday.
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The man hijacked the ferry with 24 onboard Friday night near Izmit, according to a provincial governor.
A hijacker went to the captain’s quarters aboard the ferry Kartepe about 5 p.m. and took the captain hostage, Ercan Topaca, the governor of the western province of Kocaeli, told CNN Turk.
“I am in touch with the captain but the captain has to say what the hijacker tells him to say. He can’t say anything else.” Topaca said.
“I am in touch with the captain, but the captain has to say what the hijacker tells him to say. He can’t say anything else,” Topaca said Friday.
So far, the only demand is that the incident be shown on television, Topaca said.
Izmit is about 50 miles east of Istanbul. It is on the Marmara Sea, which lies between the Mediterranean and Aegean seas to the southwest and the Black Sea to the northeast.
Journalists Gul Tuysuz and Andrew Finkel contributed to this report.