Turkish Airlines to resume flights to Damascus on Jan 23

Turkish Airlines said Wednesday that it would resume flights to Damascus from January 23 after more than a decade, following the fall of Syria's strongman president Bashar Al-Assad.

"We will begin our flights to Damascus on January 23, with three flights per week," the airline's chief executive Bilal Eksi posted on X.

Turkey, which supports the Islamist-led rebels who overthrew Assad last month, had already said it would help resume commercial flights to Damascus, noting that its airport lacked a radar system.

Qatar Airways was the first international carrier to announce that it would resume flights to Syria's capital, which began on January 7.