'Onur Air', Issue of Turkish Civil Aviation's Honor

'Onur Air', Issue of Turkish Civil Aviation's Honor : "'Onur Air', Issue of Turkish Civil Aviation's Honor
By Selim Kuvel, Mustafa Gun
Published: Thursday 19, 2005
Onur Air's struggle to lift the flight ban by Germany, France, The Netherlands, and Sweden, on the pretense of technical faults, continues.
After Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's discussion on the issue with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder on May 17, the officials of the Ministry of Transportation contacted a Dutch technical committee on May 18. Turkish Minister of Transport Binali Yildirim told Zaman to explain their attitude at the ministry as that the crisis became an issue of honor rather than an issue of Onur Air (Onur means honor in Turkish). "