President Amadou Toumani Toure cut the ribbon for the building.At the completion ceremony of the building on December 1st, 2007 in the Presidential Palace.
Unfortunately, however, the arms fell out of use and were lost to memory thereafter. They waited 200 years before they were rediscovered and returned to use.
Passenger aircraft have begun flying in and out of a giant new airport in the Turkish city of Istanbul, which Turkey plans to make the biggest in the world.