Turkey closes airspace to some Israeli flights
by SUZAN FRASER
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey has closed its airspace hava sahası to some Israeli military flights following a deadly raid baskın on a Gaza-bound aid ship, the Turkish prime minister and officials said Monday. An official said civilian commercial flights were not affected.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters in Toronto that Turkey imposed yüklemek a ban yasak on Israeli flights after the May 31 raid on a Turkish ship that was part of a six-vessel gemi international aid flotilla, according to the state-run Anatolia news agency. The prime minister, who is in Canada to attend a summit zirve of the Group of 20 major industrial and developing nations, did not elaborate üzerinde durmak.
A Turkish government official said, however, that the ban was for Israeli military flights and that commercial flights were not affected. It was not a blanket geniş kapsamlı ban and each flight request istek would be assessed belirlemek case-by-case, the official added. The official spoke on condition of anonymity, in line with government rules that bar yasaklamak; katmamak officials from speaking to journalists without prior authorization.
On Sunday, Israel's Yediot Ahronot newspaper reported that Turkey had not allowed a plane carrying Israeli military officers,en route giderken to a tour of memorial sites in Auschwitz, Poland, to fly over Turkish airspace.
The Israeli prime minister's office had no comment on Erdogan's statements.
Eight Turks and a Turkish-American were killed in the raid that drew Turkish outrage büyük öfke and widespread international condemnation kınama.
The aid ships were sailing to Gaza to break an Israeli blockade kuşatma that it said it imposed to keep weapons and other military components parça out of the hands of Gaza militants who have attacked Israel with bombs, rockets and mortars havan for years.
Israel insists troops involved in the deadly raid acted in self-defense after being attacked by some of the activists on board.
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