Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 08:58pm on 03 Jan 2024,Wednesday International
Turkey has rejected Britain's bid to send two minehunter ships to Kyiv through its waters, saying it will refuse passage to any military vessels linked to Russia or Ukraine for as long as the war continues. "Our pertinent allies have been duly apprised that the mine-hunting ships donated to Ukraine by the United Kingdom will not be allowed to pass through the Turkish Straits to the Black Sea as long as the war continues," the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office said. Turkey says it has an "international obligation not to allow ships belonging to either 'belligerent party' in the conflict to use its Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits."
