your nightmare said:
Since you seem intent on playing the victim here, you only asked for right of passage at the figurative last minute, and only after I had to remind you this was mandatory for black sea access as I had stated in the thread.
Ah, so you finally admit that I requested passage? That's a different story to the one you were telling everyone a few years ago.
your nightmare said:
I assumed that if you're planning to sail ships through an only 3 km's wide strait with military ships, you'd at least ask the other nation how it feels about that.
Any nations that approached me about passage were met with neutrality and given a protocol as to how to gain acces. The way they followed it would result in acces or not. This protocol was put in place because apparently there's this war or something a bit north of my nation.
So, now that we've established that I did request access, it only follows that you put certain protocols to me - emphasising the '
Any Nations' in the quote above. The protocols that Turkey requested I followed were simply to inform them of the size of the escort and the purpose of the vessels which I promptly did. Following all that, I don't see how I can be the aggressor in the infringement all those years ago.
Now that Turkey has publicly admitted to their dubious actions it's fair to question the supposedly 'legitimacy' in doing what they did. Though, the organisation of their ambush made it blindly obvious that they were snakes at the time, an admittance only validates it.
The credibility of the Turks stands at nought until proper compensation and apology is given for their devious undertakings.