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.
On March 25,
the United States banned electronic devices larger than a mobile phone from
cabins on direct flights to the United States from 10 airports in the Middle
East, North Africa and Turkey.
Dogan said
flag carrier Turkish Airlines (THYAO.IS)
accepted passengers with electronic devices onto its 6:45 a.m. (11:45 p.m. ET
on Tuesday) flight from Istanbul's Ataturk Airport to New York's John F.
Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday morning.
State-run
Anadolu news agency on Tuesday reported Turkey's Transport Minister Ahmet
Arslan as saying the ban on the devices on flights from Istanbul to the United
States would be lifted on Wednesday.
U.S. and
British officials carried out inspections of security measures at Ataturk
Airport on Tuesday, Dogan reported.
The ban was
imposed at the 10 airports in eight countries - Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, the
United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and Turkey - to address fears
that bombs could be concealed in electronic devices.
On Sunday,
the ban was lifted on flights from Abu Dhabi.
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