Recep Tayyip Erdogan is about to receive a nice gift. A Boeing 747 transformed into Air Force One. A private plane generously offered to him by his ally the Emir of Qatar, which the Turkish President visited on Thursday, a symbol of the strengthening of this Qataro-Turkish partnership, which is shaking up Syria's deal with Libya.
Arrived on December 11, 2017 at Basel Mulhouse Airport, the Qatar Airways commercial aircraft is just waiting for a final coat of paint to be delivered in September to the Turkish President. For a year and a half, the twin-deck jumbo-jet - distinguished, discretion obliges! - is in the hands of a renovation company, under a hangar in the Private Aviation section of the Franco-Swiss airport. A beautiful aircraft inside completely redone, whose value has more than doubled, to $ 1 billion, according to a Swiss source on the spot. Made-to-measure, woodwork with cylinders on shelves! Sheikh Tamim al-Thani, who pays the bill, did not laugh at his ally
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