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Yavuz Çizmeci, a partner in the company that leased the plane involved in a deadly 2007 crash in the southern province of Isparta, was apprehended at Istanbul Airport on May 16, after 17 years on the run.

The long-awaited conclusion of a retrial stemming from the 2007 plane crash in Isparta has finally been reached, as the top appeals court's criminal chamber approved the penalties for airline officials involved in the incident.

A note handed by a passenger to a flight attendant ahead of a flight to Nicosia from Istanbul sparked a bomb scare on May 24, Doğan News Agency has reported.

The first aircraft of the Turkish airline AtlasGlobal landed at Belgrade's Nikola Tesla International Airport late on Wednesday.

The carrier will fly the new route every day.

Hava? Saudi Arabia, the first Turkish company with a ground handling services license in Saudi Arabia, has begun providing its services in Medina as part of Pegasus Airlines? Umrah operations included in its service network, the company said by a written statement on Feb. 24.

Eight suspects were handed jail sentences, including senior managers and high-ranking civil aviation officials, while 12 others were acquitted Jan. 6 in a trial into the crash of a passenger plane in the southern province of Isparta in 2007 that killed 57 people.

Turkish private airline company Atlasjet has said it has been unable to make its Iraq flights since Jan. 1 due to several reasons outside of the company, although its planes are ready to operate.