{"id":27236,"date":"2026-07-08T12:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/27236\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T12:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:05:10","slug":"turkiye-romania-bulgaria-to-protect-critical-infrastructure-in-black-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/27236\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00fcrkiye, Romania, Bulgaria to protect critical infrastructure in Black Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANKARA
\n\"T\u00fcrkiye,<\/p>\n

T\u00fcrkiye<\/a>, Romania<\/a> and Bulgaria <\/a>have agreed to expand the mandate of a trilateral maritime force in the Black Sea<\/a> in a way to protect critical undersea infrastructure, including the pipelines and other facilities.<\/p>\n

The agreement was reached during a meeting between Turkish Defense Minister Ya\u015far G\u00fcler and his Romanian and Bulgarian counterparts, Radu-Dinel Miru\u021ba and Dimitar Stoyanov, on July 8 on the sidelines of the NATO\u2019s Ankara summit.<\/p>\n

According to sources, the ministers signed an amendment to the Memorandum of Understanding on the Mine Countermeasures Black Sea (MCM Black Sea) Task Group, expanding its mandate to include the protection of the three countries\u2019 critical undersea infrastructure in the Black Sea.<\/p>\n

The move comes after maritime security in the Black Sea was disrupted by increased attacks by Russia and Ukraine and with concerns that the ongoing war would damage the existing infrastructure.<\/p>\n

The TurkStream oil pipeline and the Blue Stream natural gas pipeline are operating between T\u00fcrkiye and Russia.<\/p>\n

The memorandum establishing the Mine Countermeasures Black Sea Task Group was signed by the three countries on Jan. 11, 2024, creating the first trilateral initiative of its kind among the NATO allies bordering the Black Sea.<\/p>\n

The task group\u2019s primary mission is to ensure freedom of navigation through surveillance, mine countermeasure operations, the neutralization of maritime hazards and search-and-rescue activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANKARA T\u00fcrkiye, Romania and Bulgaria have agreed to expand the mandate of a trilateral maritime force in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1075,6278,2192,56,10],"class_list":["post-27236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-turkiye","tag-black-sea","tag-bulgaria","tag-romania","tag-trkiye","tag-turkiye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/turkiye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}