Turkey will set up digitally defined corridors in the sky for long-distance, autonomous drone flights beyond the pilot's line of sight, Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu told Anadolu Agency. He said the legal basis is the drone systems instruction, SHT-İHA, that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (SHGM) published on 30 July 2026.
SHGM will draw up the corridors with other agencies and define their borders, entry and exit points, flight directions, capacity and the minimum distance between aircraft in digital form, Uraloğlu said. The data will be published on İHATTYS, SHGM's drone tracking and traffic management platform, so that drone software can read it directly, and the corridors will avoid prohibited, restricted and dangerous areas.
Routes are to be planned with the help of AI, and İHATTYS will be able to narrow a corridor, change a route, land a drone or end a flight. A drone that loses its link will be sent to a recovery area chosen in advance, without flying over built-up areas.
Uraloğlu said the corridors could carry cargo between cities, blood, medicine, vaccines and samples between hospitals, supplies to islands and to places cut off in winter, and parts between industrial zones, factories and ports. They will be closed to hobby flights.
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