The Turkish Straits System, Why the Bosporus Only Works Together With the Marmara and the Dardanelles
A tanker leaving Novorossiysk for the Mediterranean doesn't pass one strait. It passes a system about 370 kilometres long: the Bosporus through Istanbul, the Sea of Marmara, and then the Dardanelles, the 61-kilometre channel that Turks call the Çanakkale Strait. International…