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Originally Posted by Sowa
I don't think it was the usual greece-turkey sideshow and maybe my initial post wasn't clear enough. The plane left from Italy on its way to Turkey just happened to be in Greek airspace at the time the hijacking took place...
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you are correct sir.
http://www.thenewanatolian.com/tna-15743.html
A Turkish Airlines plane carrying more than 100 passengers from Tirana, Albania, to Istanbul, was hijacked Tuesday and landed at Italy's Brindisi airport, company spokesman Ali Genc said.
The plane was hijacked in Greek airspace, Genc said.
Turkish television channel NTV, quoting unnamed security officials, reported that the plane was hijacked by two Turks to protest Pope Benedict XVI's planned visit to Turkey next month.
what's interesting here is that as far as i know the last pope was the first to visit some orthodox countries since the fourth crusade, but i don't think turkey wasn't one of them. has the pope visited turkey recently? i cannot recall.