A young vulture who got stranded last year in Turkey more than 2,000 km from her nest flew home to Serbia on Friday - by plane.

A Swedish woman who live-streamed a protest on a plane at a Swedish airport in a bid to stop the deportation of an Afghan man went on trial Monday for violating air traffic regulations.

Zafer Sonmez, who was head of Turkey and Africa for Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional Bhd, was named as the fund's general manager.

Turkish Airlines is interested in acquiring a stake in an airport operator in its core business area but has not settled on a specific airport, the company's chief executive Ilker Ayci said.

A Turkish Airlines flight from Nairobi to Istanbul was diverted after the detection of a wi-fi network called "bomb on board" that alarmed the passengers, the airline said on Thursday.

The Istanbul-bound flight TK1672 was already taxiing for takeoff on the runway of Cologne-Bonn airport when it was stopped and its 111 passengers bused back to a terminal.

A Turkish passenger plane on Thursday returned from a runway at the Cairo airport after smoke filled its cabin, sources at the airport said.

A three-month-old ban on taking electronic devices such as laptops onto aircraft cabins on flights from Turkey to the United States was lifted on Wednesday, the private Dogan news agency reported.

IranAir may get its first new Boeing jetliner a year earlier than expected under a deal to take jets originally bought by cash-strapped Turkish Airlines, Iranian media and industry sources said.

Turkish Airlines has announced that it is providing special offers from the GCC region to Istanbul and connecting cities in Turkey.

Turkish Airlines has halted all flights from Istanbul's Ataturk airport, its main hub, until 6 pm on Monday as heavy snow fall hit the city for a third full day, its chief executive said on Twitter.

A plane originally intended for Tunisia's toppled president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has been sold to Turkish Airlines, Tunisair said Sunday, six years after it was grounded following his ouster.