Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has stated that the Syria-bound Armenian plane which had made "a technical landing" in eastern Turkey was not carrying anything except humanitarian aid.
He added that after all the searched are completed, the plane was free to continue its journey.
Davutoglu who is attending the 20th Meeting of the Council of Ministers (COM) of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) in Azerbaijan informed journalists that on October 10, Armenia requested to use Turkish airspace to take humanitarian aid to Aleppo, Syria and after that Turkey has granted Armenian plane with the permission only on the condition that it would make "a technical landing" under the framework of international law.
Davutoglu said that the application was held under the law regulations and was routine. "Nothing has been identified except humanitarian aid in the cargo of the plane. After the secondary search, the plane will continue its journey," said Davutoglu.
The Antonov 12 aircraft of the Armenian cargo airline Air Armenia made "a technical landing" in Turkey's eastern province of Erzurum in what the Turkish officials had called "a routine procedure."
Sources added that the grounding of the plane was a routine procedure and it complied with the 1944 Chicago Convention on Civil Aviation.
