Ninety Years of Montreux: Turkey, the Straits and the Balance of the Black Sea
A 1936 convention still governs one of the world’s most strategic waterways. How Montreux turns geography into diplomatic leverage for Ankara.
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A 1936 convention still governs one of the world’s most strategic waterways. How Montreux turns geography into diplomatic leverage for Ankara.
Turkey, Syria and Iraq share two great rivers but no comprehensive agreement on how to divide them. Why hydro-politics in Mesopotamia is about power as much as scarcity.