"Turkey Turns Focus To Tanker-Clogged Strait
by Peter Kenyon
The Gulf oil spill has Turks once again examining their own tanker-clogged Bosphorus Strait. Turkey says it wants to avoid collisions and groundings in the narrow entrance to the Black Sea, but the safeguards it can impose are restricted by international treaty. Environmentalists say Turkey's focus on tanker traffic is fine, but ignores potentially greater dangers from some of its own pet projects -- including pipelines and Black Sea offshore wells that are even deeper than the one that caused the Gulf of Mexico disaster."
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