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Report: Turkey ordered landing of plane carrying Iran arms to Syria – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News.

Istanbul-based Dogan News Agency says weapons found on plane, which was examined by Turkish security officials, were connected to Iranian nuclear program.

By News Agencies

Turkey ordered a cargo plane carrying arms from Iran to Syria to land at a Turkish airport on Wednesday, the Istanbul-based Dogan News Agency reported.

On the plane were allegedly weapons connected to Iran’s nuclear program, Dogan reported. The plane landed in the city of Diyarbakir on Wednesday.

Turkey’s foreign ministry denied Dogan’s report, saying that it is standard procedure for Iranian cargo planes to request permission to fly over Turkey and sometimes be required to make unscheduled landings to be searched.

Security officials arrived at the airport to check the plane’s contents, Turkish news agencies reported.

Turkey’s official Anatolia news agency confirmed that the plane, heading from Tehran to Aleppo, Syria, was searched Wednesday. But Anatolia and the government did not say what the cargo plane was found to be carrying.

The report comes just one day after Israel seized a ship smuggling Iranian weapons to Gaza. Israel Defense Forces estimate that the cache found on the ship, which contains missiles with a range of 35 kilometers, could total 50 tons.

	Weapons found on board the ship ‘Victoria’, which was seized by the Israel Navy on March 15, 2011.
	Photo by: IDF Spokesman

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