Soccer falls victim to tension in Turkish-Armenian relations
BELGRADE, June 4 (RIA Novosti, Nikolai Paskhin) - Turkish authorities refused to grant an air corridor on Thursday night for a plane carrying Macedonian national soccer team to Yerevan for a 2006 World Cup qualifying match against Armenia scheduled for June 4.
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Utrenski Vestnik, a Macedonian daily, wrote on Friday that, to justify its actions, Ankara claimed that "the aircraft crew did not have the documents required for flying over Turkey".
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Currently, the Macedonian Soccer Federation is looking for alternative routes (bypassing Turkey) to send its national team to Armenia.
Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears Here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.
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Utrenski Vestnik, a Macedonian daily, wrote on Friday that, to justify its actions, Ankara claimed that "the aircraft crew did not have the documents required for flying over Turkey".
[...]
Currently, the Macedonian Soccer Federation is looking for alternative routes (bypassing Turkey) to send its national team to Armenia.
Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears Here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.
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