Turkish minister says private airline allowed to fly to Armenia

Anatolia news agency
18 Nov 04

Ankara, 18 November: Transportation Minister Binali Yildirim said on
Thursday [18 November] that the Armenian Airlines had not made any
request about flights to Istanbul so far.

Replying to questions of journalists, Yildirim said, ”if the Turkish
Airlines (THY) decide to start flights to Armenia, the Armenian
Airlines can start flights to Istanbul. Any land and air border
between Turkey and Armenia are not open. However, a private airlines
company has been allowed to fly to Armenia. In the course of time,
Armenia will see that reaching the world is possible only via
Turkey. Then problems will be resolved.”

[Passage omitted]