Turkey Officially Enters The War With Russia

Описание: For **three years**, Turkey balanced between Moscow and NATO — selling drones to Ukraine while buying billions in Russian oil.
Neutral when neutrality seemed impossible.

But this week, everything changed.

Ukrainian sea-drones **struck two Russian tankers just 35 miles from Turkey’s coast**, inside Ankara’s own economic zone.
Within hours, Erdogan called the attacks **“unacceptable”**, warning the war has now **directly endangered Turkey’s security**.

This comes as NATO runs *its largest exercises near Russia in years* — 3,000 troops, tanks, artillery, and British forces training in Finland just 70 km from the Russian border.
The alliance is hardening.
Russia is stretched thin.
And Turkey sits at the most critical chokepoint of all: **the Bosphorus**, the only way Russia’s Black Sea oil reaches global markets.

For months, Turkey has quietly been **cutting Russian oil imports**, blocking Russian payments, and tightening customs on sanctioned goods — long before these tankers were hit.
The strikes didn’t change Turkey’s direction.
They exposed it.

Ukraine has now proven it can hit Russia’s *shadow-fleet* anywhere in the Black Sea — even inside a NATO member’s waters.
Every tanker captain moving Russian crude just got a new risk calculation.
Every barrel of Russian oil just became more expensive, more dangerous, and harder to move.

Putin assumed Turkey would stay neutral forever.
But the war just arrived at Turkey’s doorstep — and Ankara is running out of room to walk the tightrope.

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1. [https://www.axios.com](https://www.axios.com)
2. [https://www.reuters.com](https://www.reuters.com)
3. [https://www.ft.com](https://www.ft.com)
4. [https://www.bloomberg.com](https://www.bloomberg.com)