The Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits, key shipping channels for Black Sea states, remained closed for a second day on Friday.

At the start of Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine, Türkiye closed the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits, preventing Russia from capturing Odesa, Mykolaiv, and other areas, according to Ukraine's ...

The 1936 Convention, signed in Montreux, Switzerland, cements Turkey’s sovereignty over Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits, and stipulates free pass of trade ships through the straits ...

ANKARA, February 24. /TASS/. Ukraine has asked Ankara to restrict the passage of Russian warships through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits. "I call on the Turkish administration to help Ukraine.

There are easier, warmer and more comfortable ways to travel from Europe to Asia – and definitely less challenging – than swimming across Turkey’s Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits.