🇹🇷🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Turkey is restricting commercial ship traffic entering the Black Sea via the Dardanelles Strait following heightened security concerns over recent attacks on vessels in the region.

The Directorate General of Coastal Safety has held back transit permits or delayed application reviews for multiple vessels bound for Russia’s key oil and grain export hub of Novorossiysk, as well as some ships heading to Ukraine.

Turkish authorities have offered no official explanation for the move, which effectively curbs maritime traffic into the Black Sea amid an escalation in drone attacks against commercial shipping.

Vessels bound for Turkish or Bulgarian ports continued to pass north through the Dardanelles unimpeded," - Bloomberg.