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ANKARA, TÜRKİYE - DEC. 24, 2024: Syria needs everything to take a new beginning, the Turkish minister of transportation and infrastructure said, adding that Türkiye has prepared an action plan for repairing and rebuilding the war-torn country's airports, bridges, roads, and railways.Syria has five airports, two of which have recently been operational, Damascus and Aleppo, Abdulkadir Uraloglu said at a press conference in the capital, Ankara, on Tuesday, noting that these airports require significant improvements.Damascus Airport handled approximately 100,000 trips last year, while Aleppo managed between 50,000 and 60,000, the minister said, adding that a Turkish team checked airports and discovered that there is no radar system."There is an air radar application that we use on our mobile phones. imagine, they were trying to manage it from that mobile phone application," he said.Computers from the 1990s are still used at these airports, and there are no proper X-ray devices, detectors, or anything else, he explained.He added that the runways are seriously aging and that the first flight to Damascus and Aleppo was entirely on the pilots' initiative, in other words, without any system and under visual conditions."So our friends made a determination, and then we have put forward an action plan," he said.The minister said Türkiye will take action to revive Damascus Airport in the first phase.He said, “There are parts of the railways that go from Türkiye to Hijaz; they have not been operated for a long time. we will quickly identify them and take a position to ensure the integrity of the railroad up to Damascus in the first place.“We sent passenger trains there in 2009-2010. There is infrastructure there, but only in certain regions."However, in the past, some railway parts were stolen in certain regions, such as Iraq, and the same situation may be seen in Syria, he said. (Footage by Muharrem Cam/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)