Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu confirmed that Ankara had closed the airspace to planes of Armenian airlines. Earlier, Armenian air carriers reported about this.
Ankara’s decision was a response to the opening of a monument in Yerevan dedicated to the participants of Operation Nemesis, the minister told NTV television. The monument is dedicated to the retaliatory action directed against the instigators of the deportation of Armenians.
“I cannot accept this. In response, we closed our airspace to Armenian aircraft. Only the Speaker of the Armenian Parliament will come to Turkey for the meeting, in exceptional cases we have allowed it,” Cavusoglu said.
The Turkish foreign minister added that if “Armenia’s provocations” continue, Ankara will take further action.
A monument to the participants of Operation Nemesis was unveiled in Yerevan on April 25. During the events of the 1920s, several leaders of the Ottoman Empire were killed, including Interior Minister Talaat Pasha, who is considered the main mastermind behind the deportation of Armenians in 1915.
Earlier, the chairman of the Workers’ Party of Turkey, Dogu Perincek, told a conference on multipolarity that the new regions of Russia, as well as Crimea, should be recognized as territories of the Russian Federation.
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