{"id":34639,"date":"2024-01-04T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=34639"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:09:11","slug":"turkey-black-sea-marines-agree-mine-clearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/tuerkei-schwarz-meer-marinen-vereinbaren-minenraeumung\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey: Black Sea navies agree on mine clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria are planning their first major joint operation to clear mines, after each country had previously cleared detected mines on its own. The defence ministers of the three countries are planning a signing ceremony in Istanbul on 11 January.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34645\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34645\" style=\"width: 228px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34645\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Bosporus_Quelle_NASA.jpg\" alt=\"Bosphorus bottleneck. Turkey has exercised control since 1936. Source: NASA\" width=\"228\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Bosporus_Quelle_NASA.jpg 408w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Bosporus_Quelle_NASA-158x300.jpg 158w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bosphorus bottleneck. Turkey has exercised control since 1936. Source: NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although the three countries are NATO allies, this is not a NATO operation. Turkey rejects the presence of naval units from other NATO countries in the Black Sea, arguing that they could further fuel tensions in the region. But of course Turkey would ask its allies for help if it was needed, according to the Turkish defence minister. The mines were also deployed in the Black Sea in the course of the Russian war in Ukraine and pose a real threat both to the coasts of the neighbouring countries and to the Turkish strait on the Bosporus; an important trade route, not only for grain exports, but for all ships in the area.<br \/>\nThe Marineforum already reported on mine clearance operations in the Black Sea a year ago on 25 January 2023. \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/drift-mines-black-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><button class=\"mfo-button\">Read article<\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">It is therefore fitting that the British government has sold two Sandown-class minesweepers (GRP, 600 tonnes, 52.5 metres long) to Romania. HMS BLYTHE was already sold in 2021, HMS PEMBROKE is due to follow this year. In this respect, Romania will certainly receive authorisation from Turkey for passage through the Bosporus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine also took delivery of two Sandown-class ships in July 2023. It will be interesting to see how Turkey behaves towards the warring party Ukraine when the two minehunters apply for passage to their home port.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34646\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34646\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34646\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/HMS_Bangor_M109_Quelle_Wikimedia-Commons-e1704296365449-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"HMS BANGOR, British minehunter in service with the Royal Navy since 1999. Source: Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"448\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/HMS_Bangor_M109_Quelle_Wikimedia-Commons-e1704296365449-300x150.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/HMS_Bangor_M109_Quelle_Wikimedia-Commons-e1704296365449-1024x512.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/HMS_Bangor_M109_Quelle_Wikimedia-Commons-e1704296365449-768x384.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/HMS_Bangor_M109_Quelle_Wikimedia-Commons-e1704296365449-1536x768.jpg 1536w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/HMS_Bangor_M109_Quelle_Wikimedia-Commons-e1704296365449-1080x540.jpg 1080w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/HMS_Bangor_M109_Quelle_Wikimedia-Commons-e1704296365449-1280x640.jpg 1280w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/HMS_Bangor_M109_Quelle_Wikimedia-Commons-e1704296365449-750x375.jpg 750w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/HMS_Bangor_M109_Quelle_Wikimedia-Commons-e1704296365449-1140x570.jpg 1140w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/HMS_Bangor_M109_Quelle_Wikimedia-Commons-e1704296365449-360x180.jpg 360w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/HMS_Bangor_M109_Quelle_Wikimedia-Commons-e1704296365449-800x400.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/HMS_Bangor_M109_Quelle_Wikimedia-Commons-e1704296365449.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HMS BANGOR, M109, one of formerly 12 Sandown-class minesweepers, in service with the Royal Navy since 1999. Source: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Contract law<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The right to close the strait is governed by the Treaty of Montreux, which was signed on 20 July 1936. Turkey was granted exclusive sovereign rights to the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara and the Bosporus, international rights of passage were regulated and the right for Turkey to close the strait in the event of war was established. The signatory states were Turkey, Great Britain, France, Japan, the USSR, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece and Yugoslavia. Italy joined the agreement in 1938.<\/p>\n<p>See also the article in Marineforum from 02.03.2022<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/brief-explanation-of-the-montreux-agreement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><button class=\"mfo-button\">Read article<\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: gCaptain<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die T\u00fcrkei, Rum\u00e4nien und Bulgarien planen eine erste gr\u00f6\u00dfere gemeinsame Operation zur R\u00e4umung von Minen, nachdem bisher jeder Staat f\u00fcr sich detektierte Minen ger\u00e4umt hatte. Die Verteidigungsminister der drei L\u00e4nder planen f\u00fcr den 11. Januar eine Unterzeichnungszeremonie in Istanbul. Obwohl die drei L\u00e4nder NATO-Verb\u00fcndete sind, handelt es sich nicht um eine NATO-Operation. Die T\u00fcrkei lehnt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":34675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,486,42,48],"tags":[6599,2728,3391,668,2499,6596,78,6598,393,1519,1864,340,6600,2941,1967,6601,398,5126,2730],"class_list":["post-34639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sicherheitspolitik-news","category-headlines","category-news","category-schifffahrt-news","tag-blythe","tag-bosporus","tag-britische-regierung","tag-bulgarien","tag-dardanellen","tag-istanbul","tag-marine","tag-marmarameer","tag-minen","tag-minenjaeger","tag-minensucher","tag-nato","tag-pembroke","tag-rumaenien","tag-sandown-klasse","tag-schwarzmeer","tag-tuerkei","tag-verteidigungsminister","tag-vertrag-von-montreux"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49828,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34639\/revisions\/49828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}