Turkish Airlines (THY) has denied reports claiming that the company would launch direct flights to the Armenian capital Yeravan, in a statement issued on Friday. "As Turkish Airlines, who continues on its path inline with its growth targets, has made no decisions regarding this issue, the subject was not even been brought to the agenda of the Executive Board," the statement said.
Some media reports suggested Turkey had planned to schedule direct flights from Istanbul to Armenia's capital Yerevan in order to boost the recent process of renewed relations between the two countries.
Turkey and Armenia have no diplomatic ties and their border has been closed for more than a decade, as Armenia presses the international community to admit the so-called "genocide" claims instead of accepting Turkey's call to investigate the allegations, and Armenia's invasion of 20 percent territory of Azerbaijan.
A warmer period began the two countries began after Turkish President Abdullah Gul paid a landmark visit to Yerevan in September on the occasion of a Turkish-Armenian World Cup football qualifying match.
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