Turkey Blocks Armenian Flights Over Genocide Memorial Objections

Turkey has closed its airspace to Armenian flights in response to the erection of a monument in Yerevan that Ankara claims honors people responsible for the killings of Turkish officials. The move comes as Turkey and Armenia had been engaged in talks to normalize ties. The two countries have a more than century-old bitter relationship over the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians in massacres, deportations, and forced marches that began in 1915 in Ottoman Turkey.