1. Deadly Risk on the Straits
... is to make it possible for the tankers to pass through the straits, with no restrictions, with no regulations so that there would be no waiting." Erkaya notes barely 60 percent of tankers took on pilots, who are mandatory only for ships making port calls in Turkey, but not for those passing through. "If there is an accident between two tankers and ... in the Bosphorus. This is the struggle now between the Russian Federation, other nations and Turkey. The Montreux Convention says as a principle that merchant ships will have the right of free passage through the straits and the second art...
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