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    TURKEY RELAXES FLIGHT QUOTA FOR ARMENIA

    Hurriyet
    Aug 19 2008
    Turkey

    Turkey has relaxed the flight quota for Armenia to facilitate
    humanitarian assistance to Georgia and to enable those who want to
    leave the country to fly out, Hurriyet daily reported on Tuesday.

    Turkey began to allow the flights over its airspace both from Armenia
    to other countries and from other countries to this country, Hurriyet
    wrote.

    Before the Russia-Georgia conflict, the quota allowed only charter
    flights from the Turkish cities of Istanbul and Trabzon, and aircraft
    from the West generally routed through Georgian and Russian airspace.

    It is not clear whether this quota change would be in place until
    the football game between Turkey and Armenia in Yerevan.

    Turkey is due to play Armenia in a World Cup qualifier on Sept 6.

    Turkey is among the first countries that recognized Armenia when it
    declared its independency. However there is no diplomatic relations
    between two countries, as Armenia presses the international community
    to admit the so-called "genocide" claims instead of accepting Turkey's
    call to investigate the allegations, and its invasion of 20 percent
    of Azerbaijani territory despite U.N. Security Council resolutions
    on the issue.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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