Turkey will adhere to the Montreux Convention and will not allow the commissioning of warships into the Black Sea. About this, as reported by RIA Novosti, said Minister of National Defense of Turkey Hulusi Akar.
Earlier, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the country Mevlyut Chavushoglu said that Turkey will close the Bosphorus strait and Dardanelles for warships of Russia and Ukraine in accordance with the above convention.
Montreux Convention adopted in 1936. It allows shopping ships to freely undergo these straits and in peaceful, and in wartime, however, it limits the staying in the Black Sea of the warships of non-Black Sea states for a period of three weeks. In emergency situations, Ankara may prohibit or limit the passage of warships through Bosphorus and Dardanelles.