Armenia`s Parliament Speaker to discuss with his Turkish counterpart  issue of opening Turkish airspace - MP

ArmInfo. Armenian air carriers cannot fly through Turkish airspace, which creates problems for our  citizens. Sargis Khandanyan, Chairman of the RA NA Standing Committee on Foreign Relations, stated this during a May 4 briefing in the Parliament.

Stressing that it is necessary to make efforts to resolve the  situation, the MP said that this issue will be raised by Speaker of  the Armenian Parliament Alen Simonyan at a meeting his Turkish  counterpart during his visit to Turkey.

On April 29, Turkey closed its airspace for flights of the Armenian  airline Flyone Armenia to Europe without warning. According to the  head of the board of directors of the air carrier Aram Ananyan, for  unknown reasons and without any apparent reason, the Turkish aviation  authorities, without prior notice, canceled the permission previously  issued to Flyone Armenia to operate flights to Europe through Turkish  airspace. The airline's Paris-Yerevan flight was forced to land in  Chisinau, and on the night of April 30 alone it landed at the  Zvartnots airport.

Later, the Turkish side, represented by Foreign Minister Cavusoglu,  stated that Turkey had closed the sky for Armenian planes "in  response to a provocation in Yerevan", namely the opening of a  monument to the participants in Nemesis Operation in the Armenian  capital. 

This is not the first time this has happened. A year earlier, in May  2022, the Turkish aviation authorities did not provide FLYONE ARMENIA  with the overflight opportunity to to European countries through its  airspace. In view of the created situation, the airline was forced to  cancel flights in the direction of Yerevan-Lyon-Yerevan and  Yerevan-Paris-Yerevan until June 10.