ANKARA, Turkey - A Turkish Airlines flight en route to Basel in Switzerland on Tuesday returned for an emergency landing at Istanbul airport due to a bomb scare, the third in less than a month, the Dogan News Agency reported.
It said flight TK1923 with 151 people aboard turned back over Bulgarian airspace and landed safely at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport.
On April 1, a Turkish Airlines flight to Portugal returned to Istanbul due to a bomb hoax. On March 30, a flight to Sao Paolo was forced to make an emergency landing in Casablanca following another false scare.
Turkey has been facing a series of security issues recently, most notably a deadly attack on March 31 by rebel gunmen that killed a prosecutor followed by an assault on a police station in which the female attacker was shot dead.
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