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  • Turkey blocks Royal Navy ships sent to Ukraine as NATO falls apart

    01/02/2024 2:13:47 PM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 94 replies
    Express UK ^ | January 2, 2024 | Hannah Kane, Liam Doyle
    Turkey has vowed to block two British Royal Navy ships intended for Ukraine to pass through its waters. Last month, Britain said it would transfer the two minehunter ships to the Ukrainian navy to help bolster its sea operations in its war with Russia. However, the Turkish presidency's communications directorate has now said it will not let the vessels through its Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits. When Russia first waged war on Ukraine in 2022, Turkey sparked an international agreement that blocks the passage of military ships through the passages for those at war. Today (Tuesday, January 2), the NATO member...
  • Turkey to implement pact limiting Russian warships to Black Sea

    02/27/2022 10:21:16 AM PST · by Renfrew · 44 replies
    Reuters ^ | February 27, 2022
    "It is not a couple of air strikes now, the situation in Ukraine is officially a war... We will implement the Montreux Convention," Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey's foreign minister, said in an interview with broadcaster CNN Turk. Balancing its Western commitments and close ties to Moscow, Ankara has in recent days called the Russian attack unacceptable but until Sunday had not described the situation in Ukraine as a war.