Posted on 11/01/2007 1:47:29 AM PDT by james500
Turkey has closed its airspace to flights to and from northern Iraq, NTV television said on Thursday, as part of economic sanctions targeting groups supporting Kurdish militants operating in northern Iraq.
NTV gave no source for its report and it was not immediately clear whether the reported ban would affect U.S. military planes operating between NATO member Turkey and Iraq.
Ankara is furious with the autonomous Kurdish administration of northern Iraq for failing to crack down on PKK militants who are battling Turkish troops near the Turkish-Iraqi border.
Turkey denies airspace shut to N.Iraq
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL1354608620071101
Turkey, which is pressing Iraq to crack down on PKK guerrillas based there, has not closed its airspace to flights to and from northern Iraq, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday.
Turkish broadcaster NTV television reported earlier that flights to and from northern Iraq had been closed as part of economic sanctions targeting groups supporting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) operating in northern Iraq.
Erdogan also told reporters sanctions against groups supporting the PKK had not yet been put into force.
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