The visit appeared to make the Mount Whitney only the second American warship to venture so near the Black Sea since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in February 2022.
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USS Nitze left the Golcuk Naval Base on the east coast of the Sea of Marmara on Monday and is heading back to the Mediterranean Sea, Lt. Taija Griffin, a U.S. 6th Fleet spokeswoman, said.
Turkish security experts and ex-military commanders interpreted a recent photo of US Ambassador Jeffry Flake on board a US destroyer in the Bosphorus Strait as a "threat message" to Ankara and called on the country s foreign ministry to summon the top diplomat, a Turkish newspaper reported on Sunday.