The airline was established as World Focus Airlines on 27 September 2005 , beginning operations with 2 Airbus A310 aircraft . Due to negative publicity after the crash of Atlasjet Flight 4203 on 30 November 2007 , which was operated by World Focus Airlines , the company changed its name to Anka Air and branding to Ankair in February 2008 . Anka is in reference to the Turkish word for phoenix , '' anka kuşu ''
Atlasjet Flight 4203
Atlasjet Flight 4203
Ankair