Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has announced a ban that will apply to Moscow for at least three months.
Turkey has closed its airspace to Russian military and civilian aircraft flying to Syria, said Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, reports Al-jazeera.
“We have closed the airspace for Russian military aircraft – and even civilian – flying to Syria. They had until April, we asked for it back in March, “Cavusoglu said.
He said he passed the decision on to his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, who later handed it over to Putin.
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” One or two days later, they said, “Putin has given the order, we will not fly again,” Turkish media quoted Cavusoglu as saying.
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The ban will last for three months.
Ankara's relations with Moscow, Turkey's support for Syrian rebels
Russia has not yet responded to a statement by Turkey. It will be recalled that the Kremlin together with Iran provided considerable support to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during the war in the country and did everything possible to help him try to crack down on the rebels.
Turkey, for its part, supported the Syrian rebels during this armed conflict. >
Ankara's relations with Moscow deteriorated shortly after Turkey shot down a Russian military plane near the Turkish-Syrian border in 2015.
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< However, they improved until Russia invaded Ukraine, which Turkey sees as an important trading partner and diplomatic ally.
Turkey as mediator in Kyiv-Moscow dialogue
Turkey seeks to mediate conflict, holding meetings between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators in Istanbul, as well as meetings between Lavrov and Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba in Antalya. that the prospects for such talks remain bleak at the moment.
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