All efforts to resume flights between Turkey and Sulaimani had been failed, Director of the Sulaimaniyah International Airport, Tahir Abdullah, told NRT.
Turkey refused to reopen its airspace to flights to and from Sulaimani in March due to concerns of terror activities in the province.
Turkish authorities accuse the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and authorities in Sulaimani of supporting terror groups.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in March that Turkey was concerned about “direct coordination” between the PUK and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Authorities in Sulaimani, however, rejected those claims.
Turkey closed its airspace to flights to and from the Kurdistan Region’s airports in October 2017 in response to an independence referendum.
Ankara reopened its airspace to flights to and from Erbil in March but did not reopen it to flights from and to Sulaimani.
“There will be no flights to Sulaymaniyah because support for terrorism still continues in Sulaymaniyah,” former Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said.
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