YEREVAN. May 3 (Interfax) - Armenia has not received official notification from Turkey on the latter closing its airspace to transit flights by Armenian airlines, Lilit Agabekyan, an aide to the head of the Armenian Civil Aviation Committee, said in an interview with Interfax.
"We have not received any official notification," Agabekyan said.
The Armenian airline Flyone Armenia has experienced problems flying to Europe, Agabekyan said. "However, flights between Yerevan and Istanbul are occurring on a routine basis," she said.
Flyone Armenia's chairman, Aram Ananyan, told Interfax that no changes had been made to flights between Yerevan and Istanbul for the time being.
Ananyan told Interfax on May 2 that Turkey had closed its airspace to Flyone Armenia without prior notification, prompting a plane en route from Paris to Yerevan to make an emergency landing in Chisinau. Turkey also did not clear another Armenian plane's transit flight via its airspace when it was on its way from Paris to Yerevan on May 2, which prompted the cancellation of all flights on this route.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday that Turkey closed its airspace to Armenian planes en route to third countries "in response to the provocative placement of the Nemesis monument in the center of Yerevan."
Armenia's statement that "it was the municipality that built the monument and that [it has] no authority" to influence the decision "are not sincere and correct, and demonstrate the absence of good intentions in Yerevan" for normalizing relations, Cavusoglu said.
"In response to those 'good' intentions on their part, naturally, I won't stay idle either. We have closed Turkish airspace to planes from Armenia, which have begun to fly to lots of different destinations," he said.
A monument to Operation Nemesis was unveiled in central Yerevan on April 25 at a request from the descendants of some members of the Nemesis group, which carried out the operation as an act of retribution against the organizers of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915.