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Some 250 Turkish citizens are leaving Libya, after a call from a renegade Libyan general to Turks and Qataris to leave the country’s east within two days or suffer a backlash from the public.

Most Turkish nationals have left the country since the Foreign Ministry issued its own warning, Anadolu Agency quoted Turkey’s Benghazi Council General Ali Sait Akın as saying on June 23.

U.S. aerospace giant Boeing and Turkish Airlines on June 16 finalized an order for 15 additional 737 MAX 8s, valued at $1.6 billion at list prices, the companies said.

The deal stemmed from the Turkish flag carrier's biggest Boeing order in its history, in May 2013, for 70 single-aisle 737s, Boeing best-selling airplane.

The violence in broad regions of Iraq continues and the crisis has gained a dimension of “sectarian clashes,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry stated June 15, stressing clashes spread from one region to another at short notice.

Some 113 Turkish workers who were in the Iraqi city of Najaf returned Turkey on June 14, the Turkish foreign ministry said, informing that the Turkish Airlines continued its operations in the country’s main airports, Baghdad, Basra, Irbil, Najaf and Suleimaniye.
 

Turkey issued a fresh travel warning for Iraq on June 13 following recent developments that caused unrest to different parts of the country and recommended Turkish citizens to leave Iraq through safe routes.

As jihadist militants approach ever closer to the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Turkey has still yet to decide to evacuate its embassy in the city, an official has told Hürriyet Daily News, adding that the embassy staff were currently working to remove all Turkish nationals from Iraq.

Singapore Airlines on Tuesday started twice-weekly direct flights from Athens to Singapore, every Monday and Thursday.

The service will run to October 9 on Boeing 777-200ER aircraft.

The airline also operates 33 weekly flights linking Athens and Singapore via Istanbul in a code-share partnership with Aegean and Turkish Airlines.

Airport operator TAV is negotiating with the Turkish airport authority to build a new international terminal at the company’s flagship airport Atatürk, despite its contract expiring in 2021 Turkish airport builder and operator TAV is in talks with the state airport authority to build a new international terminal at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport, Chief Executive Sani Şener has said.

While the perpetrators and motives for the attack in which Turkish Airlines’ (THY) security chief was killed in Mogadishu remains unclear, detailed information about the life of Saadettin Doğan has been revealed.

Turkish Airlines’ security chief was killed when a company car was attacked in Mogadishu, Turkish Ambassador Kani Torun said May 27.

Saadettin Doğan reportedly died after being hit in the head in the attack.

Turkey’s Mogadishu Embassy has contacted Somali officials to urge that they conduct an investigation to identify and capture the assailants.