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The Bosphorus stops both ways for a hull the war already stopped
Istanbul suspended traffic in both directions on Friday morning to walk a casualty through the strait: the Liberian-flagged bulker Great Ocean, 289 m, struck by drones near the Kerch Strait entrance about a month ago, went south under tow to a repair yard.
Moscow rejects the moratorium and says no formal proposal ever arrived
Moscow rejected Hakan Fidan’s Black Sea moratorium on Friday, calling it a half-measure and denying that any formalised Turkish appeal had arrived through official channels. Ankara had not answered by Monday morning, and the war keeps washing up on Turkish shores.
Uzbekistan is guest of honour at a gathering Ankara does not convene
The Kurultaj opens on the Bugac puszta today. Tomorrow’s ceremony lists the secretary general of the Organization of Turkic States, the culture ministers of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, the president of TURKSOY and one Turkish party official. The host is a Hungarian foundation and the mayor of a village of two thousand.
Ankara's condolences on 10 August went to Colombia
Eight Uzbek citizens and one Tajik citizen were killed at Nizhnekamsk on 10 August. The Turkish foreign ministry issued a condolence statement that day, numbered 155, about an earthquake in Colombia. It has published four releases since 10 August and none of them mentions the nine.
Russia's first answer on the Black Sea moratorium comes from a Duma deputy
Turkey's proposal for a moratorium on maritime strikes drew its first Russian pushback on Tuesday, at parliamentary level.
The shipping war’s damaged ships head for the yards
Two of the vessels hit off Novorossiysk this month now have names and destinations: the container ship LDR Yasar is under damage assessment in Samsun, and the dry cargo carrier Gulluk is sailing to Istanbul for repairs.