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Despite supporting Ukraine militarily, President Erdogan has crucial political and economic reasons for preserving good ties with Moscow, so he is unlikely to take any actions in the Black Sea that are not strictly laid out in the Montreux Convention.
Executive Summary Since Classical times up through the violence of World War I, the issue of control of the Bosporus, Sea of Marmara and Dardanelles the Turkish Straits, which connect the Black Sea with the eastern Mediterranean has vexed kings and admirals and led to the rise and fall of empires. When the largest global conflict until that time ended in November …