Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 22

31-May-2010

CASPIAN

Turkey To Examine New Legislation Discouraging Bosporus Oil Traffic

The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs since February has been circulating to governments of Black Sea littoral states, the US and the EU, draft legislation intended to further dissuade shipping companies from using the Bosporus Straits as an oil transit route. The document, whose existence was confirmed on 21 May by a ministry spokesman during a press conference...