Turkey breaches aviation treaty by blocking Russian surveillance aircraft: Moscow

‘Russia says Turkey has breached the Open Skies Treaty by refusing to allow a Russian surveillance aircraft to overfly its territory near Syria.

“After the arrival of the Russian mission to Turkey and the announcement of the desired itinerary, the Turkish military officials refused to allow the inspection flight citing an order from the Turkish Foreign Ministry,” the head of the Russian Defense Ministry’s National Nuclear Risk Reduction Center, Sergey Ryzhkov, said in a statement on Wednesday, RT reported.

Under the 2002 treaty, Turkey, Russia and 32 other signatories are obliged to allow unarmed aerial surveillance flights over the entire territory of the treaty’s participants. Such flights are meant to gather information about military forces and activities of concern to the member states aimed at boosting mutual understanding and confidence.’

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