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Fars News Agency, Iran
Oct 15 2012
Turkey Continues Grounding Syria Bound Flights
TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkey grounded a Syria bound Armenian passenger flight
to inspect its cargo after a similar move last Wednesday angered
Damascus officials who retaliated the forced landing of the
Moscow-Syria flight in Ankara with closing their airspace to all
Turkish airliners.
Turkish authorities are searching the Armenian aircraft traveling from
Armenia to Syria after it landed in the Eastern city of Erzurum.
Ankara had reportedly demanded in advance the on-the-ground cargo
inspection in Erzurum as a condition of flying through Turkish
airspace.
"There was nothing extraordinary about it. Turkish security forces are
currently searching the cargo," Air Armenia head Arsen Avetisyan told
Interfax news agency.
The cargo plane is carrying humanitarian aid to Aleppo.
This incident comes days after the Turkish military forced a Syrian
plane traveling from Moscow to Damascus to land in Turkey. Ankara
claimed that the civilian aircraft was transporting weapons to Syria.
Authorities seized equipment they found in the plane's luggage before
allowing it to resume its flight.
The equipment was spare parts for radar, not weapons, Russian Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov said. The components were legally purchased in
Russia, and were being delivered to the buyer in Syria.
Turkey and Syria denied each other the use of their respective
airspaces after the incident.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn`07112876
Oct 15 2012
Turkey Continues Grounding Syria Bound Flights
TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkey grounded a Syria bound Armenian passenger flight
to inspect its cargo after a similar move last Wednesday angered
Damascus officials who retaliated the forced landing of the
Moscow-Syria flight in Ankara with closing their airspace to all
Turkish airliners.
Turkish authorities are searching the Armenian aircraft traveling from
Armenia to Syria after it landed in the Eastern city of Erzurum.
Ankara had reportedly demanded in advance the on-the-ground cargo
inspection in Erzurum as a condition of flying through Turkish
airspace.
"There was nothing extraordinary about it. Turkish security forces are
currently searching the cargo," Air Armenia head Arsen Avetisyan told
Interfax news agency.
The cargo plane is carrying humanitarian aid to Aleppo.
This incident comes days after the Turkish military forced a Syrian
plane traveling from Moscow to Damascus to land in Turkey. Ankara
claimed that the civilian aircraft was transporting weapons to Syria.
Authorities seized equipment they found in the plane's luggage before
allowing it to resume its flight.
The equipment was spare parts for radar, not weapons, Russian Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov said. The components were legally purchased in
Russia, and were being delivered to the buyer in Syria.
Turkey and Syria denied each other the use of their respective
airspaces after the incident.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn`07112876