Turkey’s foreign minister said on February 27 that the situation in Ukraine had become a war, a declaration that authorises his country to activate the Montreux Convention and ban Russian war vessels from entering the Black Sea through the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits.
About the Montreux Convention 1936
- The Bosporus and Dardanelles straits, also known as the Black Sea Straits, connect the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea via the Sea of Marmara.
- It is the only passage through which the Black Sea ports can access the Mediterranean and beyond.
- The Montreux Convention was Signed on 20 July 1936 at the Montreux Palace in Switzerland, it went into effect on 9 November 1936.
- According to the 1936 Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits, Turkey has control over both the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits.
- In the event of a war, the pact gives Turkey the right to regulate the transit of naval warships and to block the straits to warships belonging to the countries involved in the conflict.
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