Turkiye seizes Iranian airline’s plane over unpaid debt

According to Business Recorder, Turkish officials detained a Boeing 737 jet from Iran's Caspian Airlines in Istanbul on Monday. The aircraft had finished boarding and was getting ready to leave for Tehran when authorities acted on a court seizure order linked to an alleged debt of 3.0 million euros ($3.4 million). Turkey's Anadolu news agency gave the account of the detention, and media in both countries reported it on Tuesday.

In a statement carried by Iranian state television, Caspian Airlines said its Istanbul-to-Tehran service was under temporary curbs on one Boeing jet owing to an administrative matter in Turkey. Reports did not mention fresh US sanctions on Iranian carriers, measures that were presented as added pressure on Iran's economy amid the Middle East war.