A Turkish Airlines (THY) plane carrying 13 Turkish survivors of the Asia tsunamis returned to Istanbul on Tuesday evening, the semi-official Anatolia News Agency reported.
The passengers were brought by an Airbus A-340 jet, which landed at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport.
Ankara sent the plane on Monday to the Maldives to bring back Turks stranded in the region.
Forty-one Turkish citizens are still missing after Sunday morning's earthquake in southern Asia.
Turkish authorities are looking for 18 Turkish citizens in Thailand, six in Malaysia, six in India, three in Myanmar, three in Sri Lanka, two in Maldives, two in Singapore, and one in Indonesia, who have been reported missing.
The earthquake, measuring 8.7 on the Richter Scale, triggered devastating tsunamis, or tidal waves, in south and southeast Asia.
At least 50,000 people in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Maldives, Thailand and Malaysia have been killed in the disaster.