Türkiye Urges International Cooperation to Protect Strategic Shipping Routes
(MENAFN) Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has called for a worldwide initiative to protect major maritime passageways and improve global connectivity, warning that escalating geopolitical rivalries and interruptions to essential shipping routes are creating serious economic and security challenges.
Addressing the TRT World Forum in Istanbul on Saturday, Fidan emphasized the importance of establishing new international cooperation mechanisms founded on mutual confidence, common interests and leadership by countries within their respective regions.
"No country, however powerful, can insulate itself from the consequences of a fragmented and insecure international environment. Security is indivisible," he said.
"Your security cannot be sustained at the expense of the security of the others," he added, highlighting the need for realistic security arrangements shaped by the priorities of directly concerned countries rather than externally imposed solutions.
The Turkish foreign minister also raised concerns over increasing military tensions in the Black Sea, alongside growing instability around the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb. He warned that developments in these strategic waterways could disrupt international commerce, threaten energy supplies and undermine food security.
"The Black Sea has increasingly become an arena of military confrontation," he said, pointing to attacks against commercial shipping and interruptions to maritime transportation as growing threats to the delivery of essential commodities, particularly grain exports.
Addressing the TRT World Forum in Istanbul on Saturday, Fidan emphasized the importance of establishing new international cooperation mechanisms founded on mutual confidence, common interests and leadership by countries within their respective regions.
"No country, however powerful, can insulate itself from the consequences of a fragmented and insecure international environment. Security is indivisible," he said.
"Your security cannot be sustained at the expense of the security of the others," he added, highlighting the need for realistic security arrangements shaped by the priorities of directly concerned countries rather than externally imposed solutions.
The Turkish foreign minister also raised concerns over increasing military tensions in the Black Sea, alongside growing instability around the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb. He warned that developments in these strategic waterways could disrupt international commerce, threaten energy supplies and undermine food security.
"The Black Sea has increasingly become an arena of military confrontation," he said, pointing to attacks against commercial shipping and interruptions to maritime transportation as growing threats to the delivery of essential commodities, particularly grain exports.
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