On November, 2nd within the limits of the 10 anniversary from the date of opening by Turkish airline «Turkish airlines» messages between Istanbul and Simferopol in the Crimean capital new office of Turkish Airlines has bedun its activity.
«With opening of this office the company and Turkey became even closer. We want to wish successes of the company in very important direction — rapprochement of the people. Rapprochement of the people very important, and for our two nations especially. Crimea — special region. And you do very many that the world became wider for our citizens», — the first deputy of the chairman of the Crimean parliament Grigory Ioffe has told in a salutatory word.
The first deputy of the chairman of the council of ministers АRC Tatyana Umrihina has noticed that in the educational institutions created with assistance of Turkish partners in which children of 10 nationalities study, children are trained in tolerance, friendship between absolutely different nationalities Important that these children «in the future never against each other that a hand will not lift that, but also words bad will not tell».
During the performance the vice-president of board and executive committee of Turkish airlines Hamdi Topchu has underlined that mutual relations between Ukraine and Turkey have started to develop promptly after finding of independence of Ukraine. To pull together the people of these two countries the given company has opened the aircraft service between Istanbul and Kiev, and in 6 years — between Istanbul and Simferopol. Till 2008 flights were made two times a week, in the subsequent — every day. Topchu also has noticed that from Crimea probably to get to 950 cities of the world.
According to the vice-president of board of the Turkish airlines, the given airline after Germany and Russia most of all flights carries out to Ukraine. In the near future, opening of points of the message in several cities of Ukraine is planned. Besides, it has been noticed that, despite an economic crisis, number of passengers does not fall. If in 2007 in a direction Istanbul-Simferopol-Istanbul it has been transported 40 thousand passengers, in 2008 this number has increased by 50 %.
On materials: news agency QHA