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TURKEY GROUNDS SYRIAN-BOUND PLANE
United Press International UPI
Nov 8 2012
ANKARA, Turkey, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Turkey grounded a Syria-bound cargo
plane suspected of carrying weapons early Thursday to combat the arms
flow to Syria, officials said.
The Armenian plane, said to be carrying humanitarian aid to Syria,
was forced to land in Erzurum in eastern Turkey shortly after 6 a.m.,
officials told Today's Zaman,
Turkish military ammunition experts and police with canine units
searched the plane. All aid packages were to be X-rayed, the Hurriyet
Daily News said.
The incident came less than a month after another Armenian plane headed
for Syria was grounded on similar suspicions, Turkish media reports
said. It was later given an all clear and permitted to continue its
flight to Aleppo.
In recent months Ankara has stepped up efforts to prevent its airspace
from being used to supply the Syrian regime. Also last month Turkey
grounded a Russian plane it said carried arms for President Bashar
Assad's forces.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/11/08/Turkey-grounds-Syrian-bound-plane/UPI-28251352377321/
From: A. Papazian
United Press International UPI
Nov 8 2012
ANKARA, Turkey, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Turkey grounded a Syria-bound cargo
plane suspected of carrying weapons early Thursday to combat the arms
flow to Syria, officials said.
The Armenian plane, said to be carrying humanitarian aid to Syria,
was forced to land in Erzurum in eastern Turkey shortly after 6 a.m.,
officials told Today's Zaman,
Turkish military ammunition experts and police with canine units
searched the plane. All aid packages were to be X-rayed, the Hurriyet
Daily News said.
The incident came less than a month after another Armenian plane headed
for Syria was grounded on similar suspicions, Turkish media reports
said. It was later given an all clear and permitted to continue its
flight to Aleppo.
In recent months Ankara has stepped up efforts to prevent its airspace
from being used to supply the Syrian regime. Also last month Turkey
grounded a Russian plane it said carried arms for President Bashar
Assad's forces.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/11/08/Turkey-grounds-Syrian-bound-plane/UPI-28251352377321/
From: A. Papazian