The Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, recently described the Russian ‘military operations’ in Ukraine as war and stated that Turkey would exercise its powers under the Montreux Convention to ...

Before the battle for Ukraine winds down, NATO has a duty to prepare a peacekeeping plan for the Black Sea. Until the Black Sea states of Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and Georgia field strong navies of ...

Turkey is calling on all sides in the Ukraine crisis to respect an international pact on passage through the Turkish straits to the Black Sea, Defence Minister Hulusi Akar was cited as saying on ...

CNN — Turkey has officially labeled Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a war, in a move that experts said could potentially hinder some of Moscow's military activities in the region. On Thursday, Russian ...

The former officers were charged with "making an agreement to commit a crime against the security of the state and constitutional order." The retired admirals who faced charges over a 2021 declaration ...

According to Turkish President, Strict compliance with the Montreux Convention made it possible to avoid tensions in the Black Sea after the beginning of the Ukrainian crisis ANKARA, January 9. /TASS/ ...

ANKARA, February 1. /TASS/. The Turkish side strictly follows the Montreux Convention regulating navigation in the Black Sea straits and has not allowed any warships into the Black Sea since the ...

The Russian navy’s diesel-electric submarine Rostov-on-Don sails through the Bosporus strait, past Istanbul, on its way to the Black Sea on Feb. 13. (Yoruk Isik/Reuters) Over the weekend, following a ...