Santo Domingo. The Ambassador of Turkey to the Dominican Republic, Yesim Kebapcioglu, visited the Director General of the Dominican Institute of Civil Aviation Idac, Héctor Porcella, with whom she evaluated the potential for exchange and cooperation between the two countries, especially in aviation and tourism.
The diplomat congratulated the aeronautical authorities of the Dominican Republic for the effort deployed to overcome the impact of the pandemic and lead the air traffic recovery index in Latin America, according to statistics from the International Air Transport Association Iata.
Porcella thanked the honored visit and affirmed that Turkey is a benchmark for international tourism, since it is currently the fourth tourist power in the world, for the number of visitors it receives annually.
The director general of Idac praised the titanic effort made by the Turkish authorities led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to overcome the material damage caused by the earthquakes in February 2023, creating the conditions to project the arrival of 60 million visitors this year.
Turkish Airlines, the national airline of Turkey based in Istanbul, has a network of scheduled flights to connect more than 322 destinations in Turkey, in countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America. “We aspire for the Dominican Republic to become in the short term one of the new scheduled destinations of Turkish Airlines in Latin America,” Porcella said.