April 14, 2021 01:00 PM
Age: 7 hours
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1 PM April 14th for the webinar,
Guardians of the Straits: Turkey’s Plans for a Bypass Canal and the Future of Montreux.
On April 7, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that work on Kanal Istanbul would begin this summer. The $9.2 billion project, which will create a canal that will run parallel to the Bosporus Strait, has been marred in controversy, with critics alleging that it could threaten the Montreux Convention that has governed passage through the Straits since its signing in 1936. More than 100 former high-ranking Turkish naval personnel signed a statement criticizing the project to that effect. To date, Turkish officials have said that Kanal Istanbul would not affect the rules of the Convention, which limit the size and number of warships that can traverse the Straits. However, the new man-made waterway could allow the transportation of LNG shipments, potentially opening the Black Sea reg
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