Passenger plane crashes in Turkey

Conditions poor
Turkish police and army officials have been attempting to calm distraught relatives and friends who have gathered at the airport entrance. "Police have emptied the terminal building but there are a lot of people yelling and screaming," a local taxi driver told Reuters news agency.
Some local news reports said that weather conditions were cold and foggy at the time.
Last week several flights to Diyarbakir were cancelled due to poor runway conditions.
Diyarbakir, close to the border of Syria and Iraq, is a major Turkish military area and has a considerable Kurdish population.