TURKEY CLOSES AIRSPACE TO RUSSIAN PLANES HEADED TO SYRIA

Sat 23 April 2022:

Turkey closed its airspace to Russian military and civilian planes headed to Syria as the flight permission expired in April, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Saturday.

Turkish airspace has been closed to military and civilian planes carrying troops from Russia to Syria after consultations with Moscow, Turkey’s state broadcaster TRT Haber cited Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu as saying on Saturday.

“We closed airspace to Russian military planes and even civilian planes flying to Syria.

We gave a three-month permission. They had permission until April. Our president told (Russian President Vladimir) Putin about it. The flights stopped then. So, the process is continuing via a dialogue on the Montreux Convention and other issues,” Cavusoglu said, as quoted by the Sabah newspaper.

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