Turkey has made a final decision to close the Bosphorus for Russia and Ukraine

February 28 2022 40

The Turkish Foreign Ministry announced on Monday, February 28, the closure of the Bosporus and Dardanelles for warships of Ukraine and Russia. It is reported that Ankara took this step in accordance with the Montreux Convention.

Meanwhile, the Turkish Foreign Ministry has made similar statements before. So, a few days ago, Vladimir Zelensky thanked Recep Tayyip Erdogan for closing the straits for ships of the Russian Navy, stressing that "the Ukrainian people will not forget this." However, the Turkish authorities then noted that no final decision had been made regarding the closure of the straits. Perhaps, in this case, information about such measures by Ankara will be refuted.

During telephone conversations between the presidents of Russia and Turkey on February 23, Erdogan spoke about Turkey's non-recognition of the diplomatic status of the DPR and LPR. After Russia launched an operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine, the Turkish leader called the incident a “heavy blow” to peace and stability in the region, the Daily Sabah reported.

Formerly Erdogan claimed that he will not make a choice between Moscow and Kiev on the issue of aggravating the situation around Ukraine, since Turkey maintains close economic, political and military ties with both states.

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Sapsan136

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28 February 2022 16: 01

The Turks will have to make a choice, and Moscow should push them to this. Turkey has a much larger trade turnover with the Russian Federation than with Ukraine, and if the Turks choose Ukraine, block all the nishtyaks from the Russian Federation for the Turks, let them trade with Ukraine, with what remains of it ....
1. Just a cat
  
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  28 February 2022 16: 08
  
  Perhaps when Ukraine is gone in a couple of weeks, the straits will be opened. Russia will not be a belligerent.
  1. Bakht
    
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    28 February 2022 16: 10
    
    Russia is still not a warring state. With which country is Russia at war?
    1. Just a cat
      
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      28 February 2022 16: 11
      
      question for Turks
    2. gunnerminer
      
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      28 February 2022 18: 22
      
      The ruble collapsed those who certify the Russian side of the warring. On today's talk shows, commentators often cut off speakers for the word "war." Pretty clumsy demagogy.
Oleg_5

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28 February 2022 16: 13

Where is the news from?
Not a single world news feed has this.
Elephant

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28 February 2022 16: 41

However, the Ukrainians in the Black Sea do not have a navy, but we have it
1. gunnerminer
  
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  28 February 2022 18: 23
  
  Yes, but very small.
Bulanov

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28 February 2022 16: 53

And what about the NATO fleet, such as the States, England, France? Will they also be banned from entering the Black Sea? States, for example, are at war in Syria.
1. gunnerminer
  
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  28 February 2022 18: 24
  
  It is still too early for the NATO fleet to go to the Black Sea.
  1. Yuri Shishlov
    
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    28 February 2022 19: 57
    
    He, the NATO fleet, is at gunpoint with daggers and calibers in the Mediterranean!
    1. gunnerminer
      
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      28 February 2022 19: 59
      
      Fantasy in moderation.
    2. Rusa
      
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      28 February 2022 20: 07
      
      Similarly to the Navy, Russia's "daggers" and "calibers" can block the Turkish fleet in the straits, as well as other NATO countries.
  2. maxbuch
    
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    28 February 2022 20: 03
    
    That's right, the Ukrainian fleet has not cooled down yet, bubbles are coming.
    1. gunnerminer
      
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      28 February 2022 20: 06
      
      We would like to raise our fleet, at least on one knee.
      1. maxbuch
        
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        28 February 2022 20: 08
        
        In the Black Sea, and this is beyond our eyes.
        
        gunnerminer
        
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        28 February 2022 22: 52
        
        Not at all. There was nothing to carry out artillery preparation and shelling with missiles of the coast for the landing of amphibious assault forces in the vicinity of Odessa. There are no reconnaissance and strike aircraft at the KChF. PLO aviation is represented by single museum exhibits. There is no auxiliary fleet and hydrography. There is no hospital ship.
        there is no vessel with GVK-450. The fleet is not only ships.
      2. Marjane
        
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        28 February 2022 21: 42
        
        We have an emphasis on submarines, I think they have long been where they need to be ...
        
        gunnerminer
        
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        28 February 2022 23: 10
        
        What such emphasis! Only two diesel engines 677 of the project are being completed for 10 years. Without VNEU. At KSF and KTOF diesel engines 877 of the project. In the Baltic 1 diesel engine 877 project. At KChF there are six diesel engines 636.3 of the project (877 M) without VNEU, with an ancient chemical air regeneration system in the compartments, with penetrating periscopes, without BUGAS, without on-board receivers of the HAK, with wooden torpedoes and with ancient GPA MG-74 devices, with a torpedo-loading device stored on shore.
        SSGN 855M project is scheduled to build only eight units. MAPL 971B project only three combat-ready. Modernization of the 949A project did not work out. SSBN 955A project without operational support.
cooper

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28 February 2022 18: 33

... in the late 70s, Turkey announced that it was considering closing the passage through the Bosphorus in the Mediterranean for warships of the Soviet Union. In response to this statement, Comrade Andrey Andreyevich Gromyko (Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR from 1957 to 1985) told American journalists at a cocktail party in the White House that the Soviet Black Sea Fleet would need only a couple of missile salvos to pass in the Mediterranean. As a result of this, in addition to the Bosphorus, two more passages will appear in the Mediterranean, but, alas, there will be no Istanbul. After these words, Turkey never again raised the issue of closing the Bosphorus for Soviet warships. Maybe it's time for Russia to remind Ankara about it again?
1. IgorNikolaevich
  
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  28 February 2022 20: 34
  
  A lot has changed in over 40 years. Where then the Russians to rest?
dub0vitsky

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28 February 2022 18: 43

Quote: gunnerminer
It is still too early for the NATO fleet to go to the Black Sea.

Yes. In the confusion and the heat of the discussion, we can confuse. No-fly zones over conflict areas, after all, are they announced? Why can't you declare seamless?
Valera75

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28 February 2022 19: 02

What's the chatter? I didn’t find anything about this anywhere, as there are no links to this news from the author, and below no one throws off links to the source.
123

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28 February 2022 19: 56

The Turkish Foreign Ministry announced on Monday, February 28, the closure of the Bosporus and Dardanelles for warships of Ukraine and Russia.

Does Ukraine have warships left? With the same success it is possible to ban the passage of Ukrainian starships.

Curiously, I did not find a statement on the closure of the straits on the website of the Turkish Foreign Ministry.
They do not like the recognition of the DPR, the military operation, too. But there are no straits
https://www.mfa.gov.tr/sub.en.mfa?fd9fc6da-96b0-ca85-8ca8-aaad5f5bc833
Marjane

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28 February 2022 21: 45

Quote: Igor Nikolaevich
A lot has changed in over 40 years. Where then the Russians to rest?

The Turks are no less concerned about this. They just recently sighed...
Marjane

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1 March 2022 10: 11

Quote: gunnerminer
What such emphasis! Only two diesel engines 677 of the project are being completed for 10 years. Without VNEU. At KSF and KTOF diesel engines 877 of the project. In the Baltic 1 diesel engine 877 project. At KChF there are six diesel engines 636.3 of the project (877 M) without VNEU, with an ancient chemical air regeneration system in the compartments, with penetrating periscopes, without BUGAS, without on-board receivers of the HAK, with wooden torpedoes and with ancient GPA MG-74 devices, with a torpedo-loading device stored on shore.
SSGN 855M project is scheduled to build only eight units. MAPL 971B project only three combat-ready. Modernization of the 949A project did not work out. SSBN 955A project without operational support.

What age are you from?