Former chairman of Turkish Airlines Ilker Ayci has been appointed Air India’s new CEO and MD, the erstwhile national carriers new owners the Tata Group announced on Monday. The Air India board met to approve the candidature of Ilker Ayci, earlier today. N Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Sons, was a special invitee to this board meeting.
N Chandrasekaran, said, “Ilker is an aviation industry leader who led Turkish Airlines to its current success during his tenure there. We are delighted to welcome Ilker to the Tata Group where he would lead Air India into the new era.”
Earlier, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had referred to the issue of Kashmir in his address to world leaders at the high-level UN General Assembly session. Last year also, Mr. Erdogan in his pre-recorded video statement to the General Debate had made a reference to Jammu and Kashmir.
India at that time termed it as “completely unacceptable”, saying Turkey should learn to respect the sovereignty of other nations and reflect on its own policies more deeply”
He had also raised the Kashmir issue during his visit to Pakistan last year” We also support ensuring the safe, voluntary, dignified return of Rohingya Muslims, who are living in difficult conditions in camps in Bangladesh and Myanmar, back to their motherland,” Mr. Erdogan further said.
Will this statement of Turkish President Mr Tayyip Erdogan affect Air India? As Turkey supports Pakistan and Muslims living there.
