This is the Turkish Airlines plane "Kushimoto." As the associated Turkish Airlines webpage explains, the plane is an A330 with a replica livery of a 1980s DC-10 that was used to rescue Japanese travelers stranded in Tehran during an air blockade in the Iran-Iraq war. For Turkey, that rescue was seen as returning a century-old favour, when Japanese villagers had rescued Turkish sailors whose ship was destroyed in a typhoon.
The point: Turkey takes its relations with Japan seriously. They won't be impressed at being used as a pit-stop in the Carlos Ghosn escape.
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