Ankara and Yerevan are at loggerheads over the massacre of 1.5 Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915
Turkish authorities closed Turkish airspace to Armenian low-cost airline FlyOne Armenia without warning on Saturday, the Armenpress news agency reported, citing the chairman of the airline’s board of directors.
“For reasons incomprehensible to us and without any discernible basis, the Turkish civil aviation authorities canceled the permission given to the airline company FlyOne Armenia to operate flights to Europe through Turkish airspace,” complained Aram Ananian, its president. company.
“The Turkish civil aviation authorities implemented the cancellation without any prior notice, putting our airline and our passengers in a difficult position,” he added.
FlyOne Armenia, a subsidiary of the Moldovan carrier FlyOne, began operating flights in December 2021. In February 2023, Mr. Ananian told Armenpress that the company had a fleet of five Airbus aircraft and offered flights to 14 destinations in eight European and middle eastern countries.
Turkey has had neither diplomatic nor trade relations with Armenia since the 1990s. Ankara and Yerevan are at odds over the massacre of 1.5 Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Armenia speaks of genocide, Turkey, the state which is a historical heir of the Ottomans, denies it.
But in February, a border post was opened – for the first time in 35 years – to allow the humanitarian aid sent by Armenia to the victims of the devastating earthquake in southern Turkey to pass through.
Source :Skai
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