The Turkish Airlines officially announced that the company was scheduling to conduct Istanbul - Bishkek - Ulaanbaatar flights starting from July 02, 2012. 

They will make direct flights to Bishkek 7 days a week and to Ulaanbaatar 3 days a week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. According to their announcement the flights to Ulaanbaatar will have a stopover in Bishkek. 

Earlier, on April 27, 2012, the Head of the Civil Aviation Authority of Mongolia (CAA) S.Batmunkh and the Deputy Director General of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation at the Turkey's Ministry of Transport and Communication Bahri Kesici have signed on the memorandum of cooperation regarding the flight in route Istanbul - Ulaanbaatar and via versa.