The Turkish Directorate General of Civil Aviation (TkDGCA) says Russian charter flights will resume from July 7 following Moscow's recent decision to uplift a seven month-ban.

Last month, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally apologized to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for the Turkish Air Force's downing of a Russian Air Force Su-27 jet fighter near Syria in November last year. The incident lead Russia to impose a raft of economic sanctions against Turkey among which was a ban on charter flights.

The TkDGCA said in a statement that seventeen charter flights from Russia to Turkey have already been scheduled for July 7.