Indeed, Turkey could turn Putin’s justification for seizing Crimea – that he is protecting ethnic Russians there – against him, by arguing that it is protecting its Turkic Tatar kin, who, given Russia’s ill treatment of them in the past, are anxious to remain under Ukrainian rule.
La Turquie est autorisée à clore les Dardanelles en vertu d’un amendement apporté en 1982 à la Convention de Montreux de 1936.