UN: Athens calls on Ankara to respect international agreements, term “Turkish Straits” inconsistent with Montreux Convention

At a UN Security Council gathering connected maritime information organized by Bahrain, Greece responded to remarks by Turkey’s Permanent Representative, Ahmet Yıldız, who referred to the “Turkish Straits.”

“Turkey is making each effort to guarantee the harmless and escaped transition of vessels done these waterways. The transit authorities done the Turkish Straits is governed by the Montreux Convention, which has established a governmental and subject equilibrium successful the Black Sea betwixt coastal and non-coastal states since 1936,” the Turkish typical stated.

Greece’s Deputy Permanent Representative, Ioannis Stamatikos, responded that “the Montreux Convention of 1936 is the sole planetary ineligible instrumentality regulating navigation done the Dardanelles Straits, the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosporus, and it guarantees state of navigation successful these waterways.”

Mr. Stamatikos added that “respecting the terminology of the Montreux Convention aims to sphere and reaffirm the state it enshrines.”

“The usage of the word ‘Turkish Straits’ is not accordant with the Montreux Convention of 1936 regarding the presumption of the Straits. The terminology, according to the Convention, is ‘the Straits,’ specifically ‘the Straits of the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosporus,’” helium concluded.