Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca was quoted by AFP news agency as saying that 27 patients had been flown to Turkey from Egypt.
He said the patients were accompanied by 13 other people, although it was unclear whether they were medical staff or family members.
The two planes carrying the patients, many of them children, landed at Ankara airport shortly after 00:30 on Thursday (21:30 GMT Wednesday).
Koca had been in Egypt for discussions on the delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza, and said the patients were able to be transferred to Turkey thanks to “coordination between Turkey, Egypt and Israel”.
He also said that Turkey was waiting for Egypt’s permission to open its first field hospital at the Rafah crossing.
Source: AlJazeera