Airline giants continue to leave Turkey

Seven airline companies cancelled their routes to Istanbul in 2017.

The world is tearing away from Turkey in all aspects due to the policies of the AKP government.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has admitted that business in Turkey is moving capital abroad, while official airlines of various countries continue to cancel their Istanbul routes.

The number of official airlines that have cancelled their Istanbul routes has risen to 7. Air France, Iberia, Swiss, Alitalia and Austrian from Europe and Air Canada and Delta from North America have stopped flying to Istanbul in the last year.

MILLIONS OF TOURISTS STOPPED COMING

The number of tourists from Europe, which is important for Turkey’s tourism, has decreased by 4.8 million this year from January to October compared to 2015. 5 million 144 thousand German citizens had visited Turkey between January and October in 2015.

Comparing January to October in 2015 and this year, arrivals from the UK have fallen by 1 million, from the Netherlands by 420.000, from France by 260.000 and from Italy by 280.000.