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Turkey has suspended flights to Iran amid a coronavirus outbreak in the Islamic Republic, Reuters quoted a spokesman for Iran's Civil Aviation Organisation, Reza Jafarzadeh, as saying on Sunday, citing the official IRNA news agency.

The suspension of flights had begun on Saturday, he said.

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