Bosporus - photo taken from International Space Station. April 2004
The Turkish Straits can refer to either one of the two straits in northwestern Turkey at either end of the Sea of Marmara: ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x1163, 1721 KB) Istanbul, Turkey: The Crossroads of Europe and Asia Astronaut photograph ISS008-E-21752 was taken April 16, 2004, with a Kodak DCS760 digital camera equipped with an 200-mm lens, and is provided by the Earth Observations Laboratory... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x1163, 1721 KB) Istanbul, Turkey: The Crossroads of Europe and Asia Astronaut photograph ISS008-E-21752 was taken April 16, 2004, with a Kodak DCS760 digital camera equipped with an 200-mm lens, and is provided by the Earth Observations Laboratory... Map of the Sea of Marmara Satellite view of the Sea of Marmara The Sea of Marmara (Turkish: Marmara Denizi, Modern Greek: Θάλασσα του ΜαÏμαÏά or Î Ïοποντίδα) (also known as the Sea of Marmora or the Marmara Sea) is an inland sea that connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea, thus separating the...
The Bosporus - that seperates Istanbul in two, and thus making it a transcontinental city bridging Europe and Asia,
The Bosporusstraits are considered international waterways and Turkey is prohibited from restricting their use in peacetime.
Turkish maritime authorities can check ships for sanitary conditions and safety and can charge tolls, but cannot stop their passage.
The 1936 Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the TurkishStraits came about due to the Turkish desire to remilitarize the Straits, which under the terms of the Lausanne Convention[?] had been demilitarized.
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