- Title: Turkey, overseeing passage to Black Sea, calls Russian invasion 'war'
- Date: 27th February 2022
- Summary: ISTANBUL, TURKEY (FILE- FEBRUARY 13, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF RUSSIAN KILO CLASS SUBMARINE ROSTOV-ON-DON SAILING THROUGH BOSPHORUS ISTANBUL, TURKEY (FILE - FEBRUARY 28, 2020) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF RUSSIAN NAVY FRIGATE SAILING PAST ISTANBUL ISTANBUL, TURKEY (FILE - MARCH 4, 2020) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF RUSSIAN TANK CARRYING LANDING SHIP TSEZAR KUNIKOV 158 TRANSITING BOSPHORU
- Embargoed: 13th March 2022 15:24
- Keywords: BLACK SEA BOSPHORUS STRAIT RUSSIA RUSSIAN SHIPS TURKEY UKRAINE
- Location: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
- City: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
- Country: Turkey
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Middle East,Military Conflicts
- Reuters ID: LVA001060327022022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: NATO member Turkey changed its rhetoric to call Russia's assault on Ukraine a "war" on Sunday (February 27) and pledged to implement parts of an international pact that would potentially limit the transit of Russian warships from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea.
Kyiv had appealed to Ankara to block any more Russian ships from entering the Black Sea, from which Moscow launched an incursion on Ukraine's southern coast. At least six Russian warships and a submarine transited Turkey's straits this month.
Balancing its Western commitments and close ties to Moscow, Ankara has in recent days called the Russian attack unacceptable but until Sunday had not described the situation in Ukraine as a war.
The rhetorical shift allows Turkey to enact the articles of the 1936 Montreux Convention that permits it to limit naval transit of its Dardanelles and Bosphorus straits during wartime, or if threatened.
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