Turkey Closes Airspace to Russian Jets Flying to Syria’s War
- Putin, Erdogan are on opposite sides in several conflicts
- Russian tourists provide hard currency for Turkish economy
A Russian Air Force Sukhoi-25 fighter jet flying over the Syrian city of Saraqib, southwest of Aleppo.
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Turkey closed its airspace to Russian jets flying to Syria, a shift in policy aimed at increasing the cost of the war in Ukraine for President Vladimir Putin.
Turkey barred the Russian aircraft, including any civilian flights carrying troops, from its skies for the first time since Russia intervened in Syria’s civil war in 2015 in support of President Bashar al-Assad.