President Donald Trump attributes a secret flight from Turkey to Secret Service and military demands amid unspecified safety threats. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

President Donald Trump attributes a secret flight from Turkey to Secret Service and military demands amid unspecified safety threats. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

US President Donald Trump took a secret military flight from Turkey last month in an operation that involved him being moved between aircraft in a catering truck, an extraordinary deception prompted by an Iranian assassination threat, the Washington Post reported.

President Donald Trump secretly switched from Air Force One to a smaller military aircraft after last month’s NATO summit in Ankara, according to The Washington Post, in an elaborate security operation reportedly prompted by an Iranian threat against him.

Presidents have taken secret overseas trips in the past for security reasons, with schedules and logistics kept classified until after the fact to protect the commander in chief.

The operation last month used a catering truck to get the president on the C-32 that flew from Ankara to the Mildenhall air force base in the U.K.