Turkey seizes cargo aboard Syria-bound plane
Questcinq.com october 10, 2012 7:52 pm “—Turkey says it has seized “objectionable cargo” aboard a Syrian passenger plane it intercepted en route from Moscow to Damascus. The A-320 plane was escorted on Wednesday evening by two Turkish jets to Ankara’s Esenboga Airport, officials and news reports say. The move marks a new deterioration in relations between Turkey and Syria, already heightened by days of cross-border shelling. “There is illegal cargo on the plane that should have been reported” in line with civil aviation regulations, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was quoted as saying by Anatolia news agency following security checks…
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