Turkey’s intelligence service had reportedly detained and questioned a Cypriot national flight attendant following the crash of a corporate jet late last month near Ankara, which claimed the lives of eight people, including Libyan army chief Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad.
One of the three crewmembers aboard the plane that perished was a Greek national, a flight attendant.
The other woman who was detained and questioned had reportedly served on the flight crew of the ill-fated Dassault Falcon 50’s arrival to Ankara, where the Libyan military chief and two aides met with Turkish government officials.
Harmony Jets Flight 185 was a charter flight that took off from Ankara’s Esenboğa Airport for Mitiga International Airport in Tripoli, Libya.
Media reports in Turkey on Tuesday said the flight attendant detained was possibly a Turkish Cypriot traveling with a Cypriot passport.
The same reports claim that because a woman is a citizen of the Republic of Cyprus, which official Turkey – alone in the world – does not recognize, the entire case was kept confidential and treated with increased sensitivity.
No evidence emerged from the police questioning and the woman was released. She has reportedly already left Turkey, according to Cypriot news reports.
Libyan army chief Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, left, one of the eight victims of the aviation accident.
