Diyarbakır Airport


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Diyarbakır Airport (IATA: DIY, ICAO: LTCC) is a military airbase and public airport located in Diyarbakır, Turkey.

Diyarbakır Airport

Diyarbakır Havalimanı

Summary
Airport typePublic/military
OwnerTurkish Air Force
OperatorDHMİ (State Airports Administration)
8th Air Wing, 2nd Air Force Command
LocationDiyarbakır, Turkey
Opened1952
Elevation AMSL686 m / 2,251 ft
Coordinates37°53′38″N 040°12′03″E / 37.89389°N 40.20083°E
Websitewww.dhmi.gov.tr
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DIY is located in Turkey

DIY

DIY

Location of airport in Turkey

DIY is located in Asia

DIY

DIY

DIY (Asia)

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
16/34 3,549 11,644 Concrete

Sources: DHMİ [1] and DAFIF[2][3]

Diyarbakır Airport is home to the 8th Air Wing (Ana Jet Üs or AJÜ) of the 2nd Air Force Command (Hava Kuvvet Komutanligi) of the Turkish Air Force (Türk Hava Kuvvetleri). Other wings of this command are located in Merzifon (LTAP), Malatya Erhaç (LTAT) and İncirlik (LTAG).[4]

The airport was closed for renovation from 1 June to 1 September 2012. All air traffic was diverted to Batman, Mardin and Elazığ.

In 2012, an Armenian-American named Zuart Sudjian claimed that she held the land deed to the property of the airport and owned the right of its inheritance. She filed a lawsuit through her lawyer Ali Elbeyoğlu for the return of the lands. After a rejection by a local court, the case was taken to the Court of Cassation where the verdict is being appealed.[5]

Airlines and destinations

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The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Diyarbakır Airport:

AirlinesDestinations
AJet Ankara,[6] Bursa,[7] Erbil,[8] Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen[9]
Corendon Airlines Seasonal: Hannover[10]
Pegasus Airlines Ankara, Ercan, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir
SunExpress[11] Antalya, Düsseldorf, Hannover, Izmir
Seasonal: Berlin,[12] Frankfurt, Stuttgart
Turkish Airlines Istanbul
Diyarbakır Airport passenger traffic statistics[13]
Year (months) Domestic % change International % change Total % change
2023 1,907,695   23% 133,052   9% 2,040,747   22%
2022 1,550,815   20% 121,562   116% 1,672,377   24%
2021 1,292,717   18% 56,407   141% 1,349,124   21%
2020 1,092,261   36% 23,381   69% 1,115,642   37%
2019 1,706,191   15% 76,045   43% 1,782,236   14%
2018 2,016,126   2% 53,180   28% 2,069,306   1%
2017 1,979,021   2% 74,181   125% 2,053,202   4%
2016 1,945,097   7% 32,920   118% 1,978,017   6%
2015 2,085,114   16% 15,087   7% 2,100,201   16%
2014 1,796,067   1% 16,141   2% 1,812,208   1%
2013 1,782,827   40% 15,826   4% 1,798.653   40%
2012 1,270,613   26% 15,211   20% 1,285,824   26%
2011 1,714,423   23% 18,951   31% 1,733,374   23%
2010 1,390,165   33% 14,425   25% 1,404,590   32%
2009 1,048,875   10% 11,506   34% 1,060,381   10%
2008 949,668   8% 17,420   21% 967,088   8%
2007 881,278 - 14,347 - 895,625 -

On January 8, 2003, Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashed on approaching Diyarbakır Airport. 75 of the 80 passengers and crew on board were killed.

On August 27, 2016, several rockets were fired at the airport.[14]

  1. ^ (in Turkish) Diyarbakır Hava Meydanı Archived January 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine at DHMİ (State Airports Authority)
  2. ^ "Airport information for LTCC". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 2019-03-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Data current as of October 2006. Source: DAFIF.
  3. ^ Airport information for LTCC at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  4. ^ Turkish Air Force Archived December 13, 2007, at the Wayback Machine - Scramble
  5. ^ Gültekin, Uygar (31 December 2014). "Landing Diyarbakır Airport on the Basmacıyans' land". Agos.
  6. ^ "AJet NS24 New Flight Number Designations – 12MAR24". Aeroroutes.
  7. ^ "AJet NS24 New Flight Number Designations – 12MAR24". Aeroroutes.
  8. ^ Liu, Jim. "Anadolu Jet adds Erbil service from late-March 2019". Routesonline. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  9. ^ "AJet NS24 New Flight Number Designations – 12MAR24". Aeroroutes.
  10. ^ "Hanover". corendonairlines.com.
  11. ^ Liu, Jim (3 September 2020). "SunExpress 01-19SEP20 International operations as of 30AUG20". routesonline.com.
  12. ^ "SUNEXPRESS NS24 NETWORK ADDITIONS – 24SEP23". aeroroutes.com. 27 September 2023.
  13. ^ "Statistics".
  14. ^ "PKK kills soldier, attacks on Diyarbakır airport - Turkey News". Hürriyet Daily News. 28 August 2016. Retrieved 2020-07-08.