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Turkey's prime minister says his country has closed its airspace to some Israeli military flights.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was quoted by the state-run Anatolia agency, did not elaborate on the decision.

He was speaking in Toronto, Canada, where he was attending the G20 summit.

The move is bound to be interpreted as a measure of the country's anger over a deadly Israeli raid on an aid ship bound for the Gaza Strip that killed nine activists of Turkish origin on May 31.

A Turkish official said on Monday the ban would not affect commercial flights.

"Military planes are required to obtain overflight permission before each flight. One military plane was denied permission immediately after," a Turkish diplomat was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.

Another Turkish official said it was not a blanket ban and each flight request would be assessed case by case.