Turkey issues permission for Russian airlines to fly to Syria through its territory every three months. The last permit has expired.
Turkish authorities have closed airspace for Russian aircraft flying over Syria. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said this, NTV reported on Saturday, April 23.
“We have closed airspace for Russian military aircraft and even civilian aircraft flying over Syria,” the minister’s TV channel quoted him as saying.
Cavusoglu said Turkey gives permission for Russian airlines to fly to Syria through its territory every three months. The last permit expired in April.
“They had permission. Then the flights stopped,” the minister said, adding that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had informed Moscow of the flight ban.
According to Cavusoglu, Turkey is in talks with Russia on this issue, as well as on the Montreux Convention, which controls the passage of ships in the Bosphorus and Dardanelles to the Black Sea.
Earlier, Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Turkey was ready to be Ukraine’s security guarantor, but you first need to understand what this paper implies.
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Source: korrespondent
