Turkey grants US warship permission to enter Black Sea

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Turkey has given a US Navy Warship the green light to pass through the Bosphorus within the next two days as tensions in Ukraine’s Crimea region continue to divide world powers.

Turkish sources, speaking with the Hurriyet Daily News on Wednesday, declined to elaborate on the name of the US warship. The same officials told the daily on condition of anonymity that the ship in question was not the USS George H.W. Bush nuclear aircraft carrier as suggested in some news reports, as it did not meet the standards specified by the 1936 Montreux Convention in terms of weight.

The US vessel to pass through the straits will meet the convention’s standards, the sources said.

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Meanwhile, it was reported on Tuesday that two Russian warships entered the Black Sea through the Bosphorus.

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The Ukrainian Hetman Sahaydachny followed shortly thereafter, crossing the Dardanelles Strait off Turkey's west coast.

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The traffic through the Turkish straits comes as tensions between the West and Russia over recent events in Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, continue to simmer.

http://rt.com/news/us-warship-black-sea-966/

[LibCampFireClub 635]

I think there is only one narrow passage way in and out of there. I guess the crew can blow raspberries at Russian ships when they get there.

[Operator 1,927]

I think there is only one narrow passage way in and out of there. I guess the crew can blow raspberries at Russian ships when they get there.

That would be the safest thing they could do. The Black Sea fleet is no joke.

[GandD 5,966]

That would be the safest thing they could do. The Black Sea fleet is no joke.

Looks like a joke to me. Its all old junk.