ISTANBUL -- Turkey on Monday warned countries not to send warships through straits to the Black Sea after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan invoked a 1936 agreement to "stop escalation" in Ukraine.
The Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits regulates passage of ships through the Bosporus and the Dardanelles under both peacetime and war.
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