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