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"Thanks to an international law known as the Montreux Convention, foreign submarines are forbidden to transit [the Bosporus] under most circumstances." I did n

• ska 7y ago
  Why does that seem odd? It's an important waterway but passes directly through Istanbul. Like the Dardanelle straights these are contained inside Turkey. Unfettered military transit would is an obvious problem for them, but pretty much everyone wants easy commercial traffic. Montreux is a pretty reasonable compromise. Note this control was taken away from the Ottoman empire as part of the treaty of Lausanne (i.e. fall out from WW1) but it wasn't surprising anyone when Turkey rejected the outcome.
  • pintxo 7y ago
    > "contained inside Turkey" And well inside territorial waters: the Bosporus has a width between 700m and 2500m.
• trhway 7y ago
  it is also prohibits true aircraft carriers, i.e. basically the ships having catapults, at the insistence of USSR. https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/naval-arms-control-1936.htm https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/naval-arms-con... >The Turkish Straits and the Montreux Convention, which once served primarily to protect the Soviet Union from superior hostile fleets, now also seem to have limited what would otherwise be a major Soviet advantage: proximity of a large fleet and its bases to a major theater of crisis and potential war. In this respect the Montreux Convention was a potential problem for the Soviets since 1964, when they began maintaining a permanent naval presence in the Mediterranean.