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Retired Turkish admirals have come out against the potential revision of the Montreux Convention regarding Ankara s sovereignty over the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles in connection with the Istanbul Canal Project. The retired admirals were petrified by the ease with which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan changes the country’s laws as they suspect that he intends to fully destroy the secular foundations of the Turkish state. The authorities, in turn, are accusing the admirals of a coup plot, Kommersant writes.
Erdogan pointed out that it was wrong to link the Istanbul Canal Project with the Montreux Convention. We have no intention whatsoever of withdrawing from the Montreux Convention, he stressed.