Turkey is going to create a canal bypass for the Bosporus Strait:
Turkey will forge ahead with plans for a 45-km (30 mile) ship canal linking the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara to try to ease congestion in the Bosphorus Strait, one of the world's busiest waterways, the government said on Friday.
If access to the Black Sea is only limited through the existing straits under the convention, we might have ourselves a loophole to escape the straight jacket that constricts our options for Black Sea operations by our Navy.
Of course, we'd need another canal to bypass the Dardanelles, too, if my admittedly amateur pondering is correct. But one thing at a time, I suppose.
