Turkey wants to be neutral in the Ukraine war. But a treaty from 1936 has it on a tightrope
PUBLISHED WED, APR 27 202211:50 PM EDT
The Montreux Convention of 1936 gave Turkey control over access to key straits of the Black Sea — an agreement that’s considered a big win for the country’s foreign policy to this day.
But the agreement was thrust into the limelight after Russia’s invasion, when Ukraine asked Turkey at the end of February to apply the 1936 agreement to stop Russian ships from the crossing the straits into the Black Sea to attack Ukraine.
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