Is Turkey Blockading Russian Naval Vessels From Transiting Through The Dardanelles And The Strait Of Bosporus?

Superstation 95: Turkey Blockading Russia From Dardanelles; Black Sea Fleet Completely Cut Off

Turkey has begun a defacto blockade of Russian naval vessels, preventing transit through the Dardanelles and the Strait of Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Mediterranean.

According to the AIS tracking system for the movement of maritime vessels, only Turkish vessels are moving along the Bosphorus, and in the Dardanelles there is no movement of any shipping at all.

At the same time, both from the Black Sea, and from the Mediterranean Sea, there is a small cluster of ships under the Russian flag, just sitting and waiting. The image below shows the situation with the ships using the GPS transponder onboard each vessel:

WNU Editor: Russia has cancelled naval exercises with Turkey .... Russia suspends participation in BLACKSEAFOR drills after Turkey’s downing of Russian jet (TASS). As to preventing Russian ships from transiting through the Dardanelles and the Strait of Bosporus, that has not happened yet, but the Russian media is taking notice .... Kremlin hopes for inviolability of international law on Black Sea strait shipping (TASS). My prediction .... Turkey has signed international agreements to not impede the transit of naval vessels, to do so would make it a pariah on any future treaty talks with any country or organization.

Hat Tip to Anon for this story.