Last week, the public agenda in Turkey has been busy with four main topics. First topic on the agenda was the groundbreaking ceremony for the Canal Istanbul attended by President Erdogan. Second topic was the joint military exercise conducted between Azerbaijan and Turkey in the Azerbaijani capital Baku. Third topic were recent statements from the Turkish Defense Minister regarding the ...
Some experts have been saying that the Istanbul Canal will open the Montreux Convention up to debate, despite the government’s assurance that the Istanbul Canal and the 1936 agreement regarding Turkey’s ownership of the Turkish Straits are independent of each other. Retired Admiral Mustafa Ozbey has evaluated the Istanbul Canal’s correlation to the Montreux convention, and offered his opinions about ...