A direct flight from Istanbul to Baghdad
Iraq-Turkey, Politics, 10/10/2000

A Turkish plane landed on Monday morning at Baghdad's international airport carrying several Turkish figures and a medical team in a direct flight from Istanbul to Baghdad.

Turkish official sources in Baghdad said that a second Turkish plane, carrying a medical team will land at Baghdad's international airport, today ( Tuesday).

Lotfi Akdghan, the former head of the foreign relations committee in the Turkish national council, who was in the first airplane said "the flight is to express the Turiksh people's solidarity with the Iraq people to lift the injust embargo on Iraq."

On the other hand, an Iraqi official source said that an Egyptian plane will arrive in Baghdad's international airport on Wednesday boarding an Egyptian people's delegation in a solidarity flight with the Iraqi people. At the end of September, an Iraqi people's committee carrying the name " the people's delegation to lift the siege imposed on Iraq" announced it is preparing to fly to Baghdad to reach a humanitarian aid to the Iraqi people.

Moreover, a Sudanese plane carrying humanitarian and medical aids for the Iraqi people will arrive in Baghdad on Wednesday.

The chairman of the Sudanese bar association who is also the chairman of the people's commission in support of the Iraqi people said in a statement to the Iraqi daily al-Anbaa on Monday that all arrangements and preparations have been completed for the flight of the plane which will be boarded by Sudanese commissions, organizations, youths, students and women sectors and representatives for political parties and organizations.

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