The airline’s press office said on Tuesday the flights to Damascus and Aleppo would be halted.
The move came after the Turkish government decided to shut its embassy in Damascus due to the unrest in Syria.
Turkish Airlines currently has seven weekly flights to Damascus and five weekly flights to Aleppo from Istanbul’s Ataturk International Airport.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March 2011 and many people, including security forces, have lost their lives in the violence.
The West and the Syrian opposition accuse the government of killing the protesters.
Damascus, however, blames ”outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups” for the unrest, insisting that it is being orchestrated from abroad.
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