Turkey has closed its airspace for flights to third countries by Armenian VIP aircraft, including aircraft number one serving Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Sputnik Armenia reports.
This was announced in an interview with 24TV by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu.
“Flights were made every day through Turkish airspace. Now we have closed it. We have also closed it for VIPs, let them not be offended by us. They also closed it for Pashinyan’s plane. Only the speaker of the Armenian parliament came to the PABSEC meeting (in Ankara), we hosted the summit, therefore, it was impossible to close [airspace] for a member of the organization,” Cavusoglu said.
Recall, on April 29, Ankara, without prior notice, canceled the permission previously issued to Flyone Armenia to operate flights to Europe through Turkish airspace.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu explained this by the opening in Yerevan of a monument to the heroes of Operation Nemesis, the purpose of which was to destroy the leaders of the Young Turks who staged the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Ankara called the opening of the monument a “provocation”. The initiative to establish the monument belonged to the descendants of the members of the Nemesis group.