The convention preserves the freedom of passage through the strait for ships of all countries
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The retired admirals signed the declaration of the Montreux Convention. The prosecutor’s office believed that the document had signs of a military conspiracy to overthrow the government.
In Turkey, police have arrested ten former admirals who defended the Montreux Convention on Turkish sovereignty over the Bosphorus and Dardanelles and signed an open letter. Al Jazeera.
Prior to this, 104 retired senior officers of the country’s navy issued a statement on the need to end all discussions about Ankara’s possible withdrawal from the Montreux Convention on the status of the straits.
The prosecutor’s office decided that the statement of the retired officers violated the Turkish Criminal Code and accused the authors of the document of conspiracy to overthrow the constitutional order and undermine the security of the state.
Searches are currently underway in the homes of the detainees.
Recall that the Montreux Convention of 1936 is a convention that restored Turkey’s sovereignty over the straits from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. The Convention preserves the freedom of passage through the strait for merchant ships of all countries, both in peacetime and in wartime. However, warships of non-Black Sea countries have the right to stay in the Black Sea for no more than 21 days.
Turkey plans to build a huge canal linking the Black Sea north of Istanbul with the Sea of Marmara in the south, which will not be covered by the convention.
Recall earlier Turkey explained the withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention on combating violence against women. According to the authorities, there was a substitution of its essence and it was used to “normalize homosexuality.”
EU calls on Turkey to change its decision under the Istanbul Convention. The head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, spoke of the need to intensify the efforts of countries in the fight for women’s rights amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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