FILE PHOTO: Turkey's Defence Minister Hulusi Akar attends a NATO Defence Ministers meeting in Brussels, Belgium, February 17, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna Geron
ANKARA (Reuters) -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, Defence Minister Hulusi Akar was cited as saying on Tuesday after Ankara closed access.
NATO ally Turkey borders Ukraine and Russia in the Black Sea and has good ties with both. Under the 1936 Montreux Convention, Ankara has the right to limit transit through its Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits during wartime.
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