The Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, recently described the Russian ‘military operations’ in Ukraine as war and stated that Turkey would exercise its powers under the Montreux Convention to ...

Before the battle for Ukraine winds down, NATO has a duty to prepare a peacekeeping plan for the Black Sea. Until the Black Sea states of Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and Georgia field strong navies of ...

Turkey is calling on all sides in the Ukraine crisis to respect an international pact on passage through the Turkish straits to the Black Sea, Defence Minister Hulusi Akar was cited as saying on ...

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey said on Tuesday it would not allow two minehunter ships donated to Ukraine by Britain to transit its waters en route to the Black Sea since it would violate an international ...

MERSIN, Turkey — The multinational naval exercise Sea Breeze — held for the first time since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine — prioritized ensuring freedom of navigation and countering ...

The former officers were charged with "making an agreement to commit a crime against the security of the state and constitutional order." The retired admirals who faced charges over a 2021 declaration ...

Summoned to depose for "supporting" the declaration of 104 retired admirals, six of the seven retired soldiers have been released on probation while one soldier could not give his statement as he was ...

The explanatory note states that 321 Ukrainian Navy sailors are to be sent for training in Turkey, the United Kingdom, and Northern Ireland. The program is intended to help Ukraine acquire modern ...

The Russian navy’s diesel-electric submarine Rostov-on-Don sails through the Bosporus strait, past Istanbul, on its way to the Black Sea on Feb. 13. (Yoruk Isik/Reuters) Over the weekend, following a ...

A Russian Navy vessel on its way to the Black Sea earlier this month. (YORUK ISIK/REUTERS) Turkey’s foreign minister said Sunday that the situation in Ukraine had become a war, a legal distinction ...

Russian warship BSF 142 Novotcherkassk sails through the Bosphorus strait off Istanbul to the eastern Mediterranean sea, on Dec. 21, 2020. (Photo by Ozan Kose/AFP via Getty Images) ANKARA— Turkey has ...