Van Ferit Melen Airport is an

airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface ...

in Van, a city in the eastern region of

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. It is named after the Turkish politician and former

prime minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

Ferit Melen Ferit Sadi Melen (2 November 1906 – 3 September 1988) was a Turkish civil servant, politician and Prime Minister of Turkey. Biography After graduating from high school in Bursa, he obtained a degree in finance from the School of Political ...

(1906–1988).

Airlines and destinations

Traffic Statistics

(*)Source: DHMI.gov.tr

Incidents and accidents

* On 29 December 1994,

Turkish Airlines Flight 278 Turkish Airlines Flight 278, operated by a Boeing 737-4Y0 registered TC-JES and named ''Mersin'', was a domestic scheduled flight from Ankara Esenboğa Airport to Van Ferit Melen Airport in eastern Turkey that crashed on 29 December 1994 durin ...

crashed on approach to the airport, killing 57 of the 76 people on board.

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* * Van, Turkey Airports in Turkey Buildings and structures in Van Province Transport in Van Province {{Van-geo-stub