{"id":558878,"date":"2026-07-11T07:46:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=558878"},"modified":"2026-07-11T07:54:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:54:04","slug":"vacation-government-business-jet-flies-someone-from-minsk-to-turkey-s-bodrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/vacation-government-business-jet-flies-someone-from-minsk-to-turkey-s-bodrum","title":{"rendered":"Vacation? Government Business Jet Flies Someone from Minsk to Turkey&#8217;s Bodrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A government-operated Canadair CL-600-2B19 Challenger 850 business jet, registration EW-301PJ, departed Minsk at 20:18 on July 10 and landed in Bodrum, Turkey, at 03:50 Minsk time on July 11, making an intermediate stop in Baku, according to Flightradar24 data.<\/p>\n<p>Bodrum is a resort city on the peninsula of the same name in southwestern Turkey, on the Aegean Sea. It is situated on a bay divided into two inlets by a cape.<\/p>\n<p>Flights by the government aircraft from Minsk to Bodrum have become something of a tradition. Similar trips were recorded <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/kto-to-otdohnul-v-bodrume-i-vozvrashhaetsja-v-minsk-na-pravitelstvennom-dzhete\">in August and September last year<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/biznes-dzhet-lukashenko-nochju-vernulsja-iz-bodruma-v-minsk\">in June 2023<\/a>. The aircraft is known to be used not only by senior Belarusian officials on official business but also by members of the Lukashenka family for private trips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A government-operated Canadair CL-600-2B19 Challenger 850 business jet, registration EW-301PJ, departed Minsk at 20:18 on July 10 and landed in Bodrum, Turkey, at 03:50 Minsk time on July 11, making an intermediate stop in Baku, according to Flightradar24 data. Bodrum is a resort city on the peninsula of the same name in southwestern Turkey, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":558877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a51cc7076b49.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Vacation? Government Business Jet Flies Someone from Minsk to Turkey\u2019s Bodrum"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}