Turkey urging US, Britain to lift flight electronics ban - foreign ministry

  24 March 2017    Read: 1500
Turkey urging US, Britain to lift flight electronics ban - foreign ministry
Turkey is in talks with the US and Britain to exclude Turkish Airlines and Istanbul’s main Ataturk airport from a ban on passengers carrying electronics larger than cell phones, Turkey’s foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
Huseyin Muftuoglu, made the comments at a news conference in Ankara. The US Department of Homeland Security said on Tuesday passengers traveling from specific airports, including Istanbul, could not bring into the main cabin devices larger than a mobile phone such as tablets, laptops and cameras.

/Reuters/

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