TOKYO/ISTANBUL -- "Everyone has a plan until the Bosporus is closed." So wrote a netizen on Reddit when Turkey announced last week that it would block the strategic straits of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles.
Collectively known as the Turkish Straits, the waterway is the sole maritime connection between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. Since Russia's warm-water ports are gathered in the Black Sea, the Bosporus is a bottleneck that could limit the activities of the Russian navy.
