türkçe links to original Turkish article
(Hürriyet Newspaper, 27 March 2025)
Gediz hanım's motto is "Upgrade or bust!"
Gediz Solgançok (39) complained about not getting an upgrade
on a Turkish Airlines Kayseri-Istanbul flight on 15 June 2023,
declaring "we'll bomb your plane!" Her pronouncement
understandably created panic among the other passengers (!).
Gediz hanım was tried and a 10 year sentence was requested
by the public prosecutor. In the end, she received a 10-month
jail term that was deferred.
The incident occurred at Kayseri Erkilet Airport in Kocasinan
district on 15 June 2023. Passengers for the flight to Istanbul
were boarded at 0345 hours but one of them, Gediz hanım,
said to a flight attendant: "You didn't upgrade me! We'll bomb
your plane!"
Hearing this, some of her fellow passengers feared that a
terror incident was in the offing, with some of them wanting
to disembark. The pilot informed the police, who took Gediz
hanım into custody. The flight took off 54 minutes late.
Gediz hanım was released pending trial but the public prosecutor
asked for a sentence of from 5 to 10 years for "attempted
highjacking"
At the first trial hearing, Gediz hanım "explained" that "I was
just joking! I only said it to the flight attendant. We had a
laugh and I took my seat. But 15 minutes later, the police
took me into custody. If I'd known it was a crime to say such
a thing, I wouldn't have, of course. I apologized over and over."
Ultimately, Gediz hanım was sentenced to 10 months in jail
but the sentence was deferred thanks to her "good behavior"
during the course of her trial. (!)
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