Turkey holds plane en route to Iran: customs official  By Fulya
Ozerkan  ANKARA (AFP) — Turkey has for several days been holding
a cargo plane en route from the United Arab Emirates to Iran
after its crew refused to document its load, a customs ministry
official told AFP on Wednesday.  "The plane owned by a Turkish
company had to make an emergency landing at Istanbul's Sabiha
Gokcen airport due to technical reasons," the official said on
condition of anonymity.  "The company has to document its cargo
at our customs until 1000 GMT today (Wednesday), for security
purposes otherwise we'll do what's necessary," he added, without
elaborating.  The official said that Turkish authorities would
have the right to check the plane's cargo if the company refused
to reveal the items on board.  "It is most probably carrying
gold," he speculated.  An official from the Iranian embassy in
Ankara told AFP that they had not been informed by the Turkish
foreign ministry of the grounding.  The incident comes amid
indirect gold tr