Turkey has barred a Russian Open Skies Treaty flight from taking place in its airspace after the Russian inspectors have arrived in the country to conduct the flight.
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By Anton Bannikov [GFDL or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons
A Russian An-30B was suppose to operate out of Eskisehir airfield from Feb. 1-5 for Russia’s first Open Skies flight of 2016.
Sergey Ryzhkov, chief of the Russian Defense Ministry’s department for control of implementation of treaties, said the Turkish military refused to allow the flight to take place after the flight route was found to include areas near the Syrian border.