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Turkey closes airspace to Russian planes carrying troops to Syria
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ISTANBUL, 24 April 2022, (TON): Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said “Turkey has closed its airspace to Russian civilian and military planes flying to Syria.”
The announcement marks one of the strongest responses to date by Turkey, which has cultivated close ties with Moscow despite being a member of the NATO defense alliance, to Russia’s two-month military assault on Ukraine.
“We closed the airspace to Russia’s military planes and even civilian ones flying to Syria.
They had until April, and we asked in March,” Turkish media quoted Cavusoglu as saying to reporters on a plane en route to Uruguay.
He said “permission had been given for three month periods until April, and then the flights stopped.”
Cavusoglu said he conveyed the decision to his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, who then relayed it to President Vladimir Putin.
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