Turkey ordered a cargo plane carrying arms from Iran to Syria to land at a Turkish airport on Wednesday, the Istanbul-based Dogan News Agency reported.
The plane was allegedly carrying weapons connected to Iran’s nuclear program, Dogan reported. The plane landed in the city of Diyarbakir on Wednesday.
Turkish news agencies report that Turkish security officials arrived at the airport to check the airplane’s contents.
Turkey’s foreign ministry could not immediately confirm the report and military authorities were not available for comment.
The report comes just one day after Israel seized a ship smuggling Iranian weapons to Gaza. Israel Defense Forces estimate that the cache found on the ship, which contains missiles with a range of 35 kilometers, could total 50 tons.
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