The Turkish government is to raise the transit fee for international vessels passing through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits, also known as Turkish Straits, which connects the Mediterranean to ...

Turkey is calling on all sides in the Ukraine crisis to respect an international pact on passage through the Turkish straits to the Black Sea, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar was cited as saying on ...

Ukraine on Thursday asked Turkey to block Russian warships from passing through the Dardanelles and Bosphorus straits, the only access points to the Black Sea. Turkey, a NATO member with close ties to ...

The Turkish Straits System, encompassing the Bosphorus, Dardanelles and the interconnected basins of the Marmara, Black and Aegean Seas, represents a complex natural laboratory for oceanographic ...

The imminent prospect of a three-fold increase in the volume of oil passing through the Turkish straits has heightened concerns in Turkey about the wisdom of shipping so much hazardous liquid through ...