Turkey searched a transport aircraft carrying humanitarian aid from Armenia to Syria today but permitted the plane to continue on its way after it was inspected, according to Reuters. The action came after Turkey and Syria closed their airspace to each other’s planes and Russia strongly condemned Turkey for alleging that a Syria plane it inspected last week carried weapons for the Assad regime. Moscow said the Syrian plane carried legal radar parts: Ankara said it carried missile parts.
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