Badr Airlines: Official Qatari carrier of Turkish terrorism to Libya

Ahmed Adel

The Turkish regime is resorting to multiple tricks for its military incursion into Libya, supplying armed militias with mercenaries using Qatari aid. Qatar announced the launch of an air route between Khartoum and Doha with the goal of transporting passengers and goods and offering private flights, while its hidden agenda is to transport mercenaries and terrorists to Libya through Sudan.

Badr Airlines is preparing to launch a route to Qatar this February with a major celebration event in Doha.

A plane belonging to the company, which arrived in Khartoum on January 28, came under the guise of transporting a medical shipment from Qatar to Sudan, amounting to a total of about 70 tons of medicines.

The Sudanese Rapid Support Forces seized weapons, including automatic weapons and large amounts of ammunition, hidden inside a medical shipment that reached the country in North Darfur, reported the news website Al-Sudan Al-Youm, confirming that this shipment was en route to the Brotherhood-backed Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) militias in Tripoli.

In August 2018, Badr Airlines launched its first flights between Khartoum and Istanbul, and it was also carrying passengers from Qatar to Turkey and vice versa.

In January 2014, Badr Airlines worked to build a route from the Darfur region to Khartoum in order to cover Qatar’s support for armed groups working to keep the Sudanese conflict alive.

Doha helped to gather a number of armed factions in Darfur to support the regime of ousted President Omar al-Bashir following the escalation of popular anger in the country as a result of South Sudan’s secession and the deteriorating economic conditions.

The French newspaper Le Figaro confirmed in a report on January 13 that Badr Airlines is prohibited from entering European airspace by a decision of the European Union due to its major role in supporting armed militias in a number of countries.

Badr Airlines, previously Sarit Airlines, is a private company established in 2004 and registered in Sudan under the country’s Companies Act of 1925.

The company is mainly involved in the transportation of passengers and goods, sometimes offering charter flights, and it also has an Air Operator Certificate (AOC) in compliance with the requirements of the 1999 Civil Aviation Law and air navigation regulations.