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Turkey Closes Airspace to Russian Planes Carrying Troops to Syria

Just last month, Turkey blocked Russian warships from crossing the narrow Bosporus strait that connects the Black Sea with the Mediterranean Sea, muddling its naval supply lines in Syria

Haaretz Apr. 24, 2022

Turkey has banned Russian planes carrying troops from using its airspace to reach Syria in a major escalation by the otherwise cautious Turkish government toward pressuring Moscow to reach a peace agreement with Ukraine.

“We closed airspace to Russia’s military planes and even to civilian planes going to Syria and carrying soldiers,” Cavusoglu told reporters on Saturday. He said that Turkey was granting Russia access to its airspace in three-month intervals, which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government decided not to renew, complicating logistics for Russia’s military in Syria

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