Turkish President Erdogan, who has never recognized the annexation of Crimea, “” unacceptable “the Russian attack against Ukraine.
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While the penalties continue to rain over Russia, Turkey, which did not impose any one, still has to prohibit the passage of its straits to all the buildings of war, whether they are from countries “Riprians or not of the Black Sea,” said Monday 28 February, Mevlüt Çavusoglu, the head of Turkish diplomacy.
Moscow immediately felt. “Russia has asked us if we went to apply the Montreux Convention. We told them that we would apply it word for word,” he added. Signed in 1936, the Montreux Convention allows Ankara to regulate maritime traffic through its straps of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, in peacetime as in times of war. Impose a ban on the Russian military buildings was ultimately demanded by the Kiev government, which the Turkish part was reluctant to do.
NATO member, Turkey, who maintains cordial relations with Russia, great gas supply, and with Ukraine, who buys drones, seems likely to maintain a form of neutrality in the conflict. There is no question of “abandoning Nor Russia or Ukraine,” said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shortly before the announcement made by his minister, evoking the need to “do not give up on national interests”.
Ankara plays big
Despite his supported support for the pro-Western government in Kiev, Turkey took five days to make its decision. His position has evolved on Saturday after a phone call from President Erdogan to his counterpart Volodyymr Zelensky. A little later, Mr. Zelensky suggested that he had managed to convince Turkish President to close the straps to Russian ships.
“I thank my friend, Mr. President Turkly Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the Turkish people, for their strong support. The prohibition of the passage of Russian warships to the Black Sea and a Military and humanitarian support in Ukraine are extremely important at the moment, “he wrote on his Twitter account.
At first glance, the announced decision is a turning point. So far, Turkey seemed likely to have a good relationship with Moscow, its supplier with gas, aluminum, wheat, barley, sunflower oil, fertilizers and anti-aircraft missiles S-400, which, delivered in 2019, have remote from other countries of the Atlantic Alliance.
Ankara plays big because of his vulnerability in Syria. Russian President Vladimir Putin, can exercise strong pressure on the Idlib region, where the rehearsal military offensives organized by Bachar Al-Assad with the support of Russian aviation have pushed more than a million refugees closer to the border with Turkey.
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