CIA plane landed in Istanbul confirmed
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Turkish Transportation Minister Binali Yildirim on Saturday confirmed that a plane that landed in Istanbul last week was in fact a CIA plane, as Hurriyet had reported earlier. The plane Hurriyet had reported was believed to have been destined for a secret CIA prison. The plane passed through Istanbul on its way to the Netherlands from Azerbaijan on November 15. Yildirim, however, did not confirm that the aircraft was being used by the CIA.
Hurriyet reported that the DeHavilland airplane arrived at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport left the next day. “The plane in question requested permission to land for technical reasons,” the semi-official Anatolia news agency quoted Yildirim as saying. Yildirim said the plane was not carrying any passengers and that it left Sabiha Gokcen after refueling.
“It was one of several planes that land at Sabiha Gokcen for technical reasons,” he said. Meanwhile, Canadian opposition legislators accused the government on Friday of trying to hide the fact that planes used by the US Central Intelligence Agency to transport prisoners for interrogation had landed at Canadian airports.
Earlier this week, Ottawa said it was investigating reports that two planes linked to a CIA shell company had flown from Iceland to St. John’s in Newfoundland, on Canada’s East Coast. agencies