Response to those who shouted that Turkey, with its move to close the Bosphorus Straits took a clear stand in favor of NATO, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoλουlu said in a statement on Tuesday night.
“Turkey has no intention of taking part in international sanctions against Russia over its war with Ukraine,” he said on Tuesday. “These sanctions,” Mevlüt Çavuşoλουlu told Turkish television channel Haberturk.
Referring to the 1936 Montreux Convention on Governance in the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, Tsavousoglu said Ankara had sent formal notices about its position on the issue to countries involved in the war.
He added that Russia had accepted that Turkey had asked Russia to withdraw its request for warships not registered in its Black Sea Fleet to cross the Straits.
With the Russia-Ukraine war in its sixth day, the provisions of the 1936 pact – which controls access to the Black Sea, including coastal countries such as Ukraine – have come to international attention.
Tsavousoglou specifically stated that Articles 19 of the agreement will be implemented.
The convention gives Turkey the power to ban warships from straits in times of war.
Petros Kranias
Source: Capital
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