The opening of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic capital city’s Stepanakert Airport is still causing concern for Azerbaijan. 

“If Armenians conduct flights to Nagorno-Karabakh, Turkey may close its air space to Armenia,” a secret diplomatic source told APA News Agency of Azerbaijan. The source also noted that official Baku and Ankara have some arrangement regarding this matter, which was frequently discussed recently by the aviation departments of Azerbaijan and Turkey.  

The Armenian General Department of Civil Aviation did not comment on this information.  

Also, Turkish MP and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) member Sinan Ogan told very same APA News Agency that Turkey could close its air space to Armenia, but at the same time he raised a question: In that case, through which route will the flights to Nakhichevan be conducted?     

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, the Stepanakert Airport is already launched and the flights are expected to start soon. And in response to this development, Azerbaijan threatened to down Armenian airplanes.