Diyarbakır Airport

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
Elevation AMSL686 m / 2,251 ft
Coordinates37°53′38″N 040°12′03″E
Websitediyarbakir.dhmi.gov.tr
Map
DIY
Location of airport in Turkey
DIY
DIY (Europe)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
16/34 3,549 11,644 Concrete
Sources: DHMİ [1] and DAFIF [2][3]

Overview

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, claiming 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
AirlinesDestinations
AnadoluJet Ankara, Bursa, Erbil,[6] Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Corendon Airlines Seasonal: Hannover [7]
Onur Air Istanbul
Pegasus Airlines Ankara, Ercan, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir
SunExpress Antalya, Izmir
SunExpress Deutschland Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover[8]
Turkish Airlines Istanbul
Seasonal: Berlin–Tegel ,[9] Cologne/Bonn ,[9] Düsseldorf ,[9] Hannover [9]

Traffic Statistics
Diyarbakır Airport Passenger Traffic Statistics
Year (months) Domestic % change International % change Total % change
2015 2,085,114 16.0% 15,087 7.0% 2,100,201 16.0%
2014 1,796,067 1.0% 16,141 2.0% 1,812,208 1.0%
2013 1,782,827 40.0% 15,826 4.0% 1,798.653 40.0%
2012 1,270,613 26.0% 15,211 20.0% 1,285,824 26.0%
2011 1,714,423 23.3% 18,951 31.4% 1,733,374 23,4%
2010 1,390,165 32.5% 14,425 25.4% 1,404,590 32.5%
2009 1,048,875 10.4% 11,506 33.9% 1,060,381 9.6%
2008 949,668 8.0% 17,420 21.0% 967,088 8.0%
2007 881,278 - 14,347 - 895,625 -

(*)Source: DHMI.gov.tr[10]

Incidents

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.[11]

References
  1. (in Turkish) Diyarbakır Hava Meydanı Archived January 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine at DHMİ (State Airports Authority)
  2. Airport information for LTCC at World Aero Data. 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. Liu, Jim. "Anadolu Jet adds Erbil service from late-March 2019". Routesonline. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  7. "Hanover". corendonairlines.com.
  8. http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/sunexpress-launches-diyarbakir-europe-flights-133531
  9. Liu, Jim (1 June 2020). "Turkish Airlines S20 European network addition as of 29MAY20". Routesonline.
  10. "Statistics". Archived from the original on 2015-06-28. Retrieved 2010-12-11.
  11. "Rockets hit airport in Turkey's southeast – reports". rt.com. Russia Today. Retrieved August 27, 2016.
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