Over the weekend, Turkey’s foreign minister announced that the country would invoke a section of a 1936 treaty that regulates two strategic straits during wartime. That means that warships from Russia and Ukraine cannot pass through Turkey’s two key waterways: the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles Straits, which open to the Mediterranean, unless they’re returning to port.
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