Turkey restricts ship passage through the Dardanelles: reaction to drone attacks and threat to food security
🚨 Turkey restricts ship passage through the Dardanelles due to drone attacks. 🇹🇷
Ankara authorities have suspended the issuance of transit permits for vessels heading to Novorossiysk and Ukraine. The reason is the rise in security threats and injuries to Turkish sailors.
📉 This threatens grain and oil supplies; wheat prices are already at a maximum.
📜 Turkey is acting within the framework of the Montreux Convention but cannot completely close the straits.
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