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At least 12 people have been wounded after a truck rammed into a public bus and a taxi on Ankara's Eski?ehir Boulevard. 

A truck carrying excavation soil crashed into the bus before hitting a taxi in the Turkish capital on the afternoon of Oct. 4.

According to initial reports, at least 12 people were wounded in the accident.

Turkish Airlines (THY) ranks first in connecting Africa with the rest of the world, a senior official of Turkey?s flag carrier said on Sept. 28.

Company Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Temel Kotil also added the airline was the ?most effective and active? company in the same interview with Anadolu Agency.

US giant Boeing has signed deals with Chinese firms to sell 300 aircraft and open a completion centre in the Asian giant, China's official Xinhua news agency reported, as President Xi Jinping began his first state visit to the United States.
 

Turkey's national carrier has revised its yearend passenger and load factor targets down on Sept. 19, after it did the same for its yearend revenue expectation last month. 

Turkey's national carrier has revised its yearend passenger and load factor targets down on Sept. 19, after it did the same for its yearend revenue expectation last month. 

Turkish Airlines' passenger numbers rose by 11.7 percent to 40.7 million in the first eight months of the year compared to the same period of 2014, the carrier said in a written statement to the Public Disclosure Platform (KAP) on Sept. 17. 

Turkish Airlines CEO Temel Kotil has said ticket prices will drop once Istanbul?s under-construction new airport is completed. 

?We believe our costs will decline when the third airport is completed and this will lead to slashed ticket prices. Declining oil prices have already positively affected ticket prices,? Kotil said. 

Come, let me tell you about the current situation on the Aegean Sea where Aylan died: The trafficking is so intense that disasters like the one lived on the boat where Aylan died occurring is less of a surprise than them not happening. In wars, first the truths die, then the children. Aylan was the latest death!

A German court ruled Lufthansa pilots must halt a strike on Sept. 9 that led to the cancellation of around 1,000 flights, in an increasingly bitter row over cost cuts and pay at the airline.

The pilots' union Vereinigung Cockpit said the decision meant all pilots must return to work immediately though it was unclear when flights would return to normal.

Since the beginning of 2015, some 59 foreign pilots among 700 tenured by the Turkish Airlines have resigned from the company amid the sharp drop in the value of the Turkish Lira.