Turkey has banned Russia’s armed forces from using its airspace to reach Syria in a bid to increase pressure on Vladimir Putin as Ankara tries to revive peace talks with Ukraine.
Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Russian military aircraft would no longer be able to transit through his country en route to Syria, where Moscow has played a key role in propping up the regime of president Bashar al-Assad.
“We have closed our airspace to Russian military flights and even civilian flights that are carrying military personnel to Syria,” he told journalists on a visit to Uruguay, according to state-owned broadcaster TRT.
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