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Turkey closes airspace to Syrian civilian flights
ANKARA: Turkey has banned Syrian civilian flights from its airspace, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Sunday, after Damascus announced it had imposed a similar restriction on Turkish flights.
Maybe we should just let Turkey settle the Syrian problem...
What if they aren't capable anymore? Prime Minister Erdogan has been jailing an awful lot of the senior officers as he firmed up his democratic coup.
Stalin did have his Finland, true...
"Yesterday (Saturday) we closed our airspace to Syrian civilian flights as we have previously done for Syrian military flights," Davutoglu told journalists. "As we have established that civilian flights were being misused by the Syrian defense ministry to transport military material, we sent a note yesterday to the Syrian side."

Ankara's move came after the Syrian state news agency SANA reported on Saturday that a flight ban has been imposed on Turkish flights.

The tit-for-tat flight bans came after Turkey this week intercepted a Syrian Air passenger plane en route from Moscow on suspicion it was carrying military equipment for the regime.
Posted by: Steve White 2012-10-15
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