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Turkey denies access to the Black Sea for two Royal Navy minehunters saying their transit of the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits would be in violation of the Montreux Convention of 1936.
2024-01-3

The United Kingdom announces that it will donate two Royal Navy "Sandown"-class minehunters to Ukraine. Doubts are raised over the logistics and timing of their arrival, with Turkey controlling access to the Black Sea through the Bosphorus.
2023-12-11

Russia rejoins the Black Sea Grain Initiative following Turkish mediation efforts. Ukraine has reportedly provided written guarantees that they will use the grain corridor in the Black Sea "solely for civilian and humanitarian purposes".
2022-11-2

The Joint Coordination Center opens in Istanbul, Turkey, to coordinate the export of millions of tonnes of grain from blockaded Black Sea ports.
2022-07-27

Turkey begins to give a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to healthcare workers and people aged above 50 years old.
2021-07-1

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that the drilling ship "Fatih" has found 320 billion cubic meters of natural gas reserves in the Black Sea, Turkey's biggest natural gas find to date. If Turkey can extract the gas commercially, it will be able to reduce its reliance on imported energy.
2020-08-21

James Le Mesurier, the British co-founder of the White Helmets, a volunteer civil defence organisation in Syria, is found dead near his home in Istanbul, Turkey. The cause of death is not known.
2019-11-11

At least seven people are killed and eight are injured after a helicopter carrying Turkish Armed Forces personnel crashes in Turkey's northern Giresun Province, on the Black Sea coast.
2016-07-5

A small boat carrying asylum seekers sinks in the Black Sea near the Turkish city of Istanbul resulting in at least 21 deaths.
2014-11-3

A search continues off Turkey's Black Sea coast for eight missing crew members of the Cambodia-flagged freighter the Vera.
2012-01-31