Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 28

12-Jul-2010

TURKISH

Turkish Concern For Straits Safety Prompts Calls For Reduced Tanker Traffic

Turkeys enduring concern for the environmental safety of the Bosphorus and Dardenelles Straits led it to meet with a number of major oil companies in Istanbul on 1 July in an effort to alert these companies to the fact that Ankara may in future place new restrictions on tanker traffic through the busy waterways and also to urge them to use proposed crude oil...