more than 12 million tons of The grain was transported by 501 ships through the “grain corridor” created by Turkey’s efforts to eradicate the grain risk of food crisis caused from Russia invasion of Ukraine.
K result of Ankara’s intense diplomacy movement, the Joint Coordination Center (JCC) was established in Istanbul in Coordination with United nations last july to follow Safe transportation of grain products.
Accordingly, the first The ship is loaded with Grain departed from the port of Odessa on August 1, thanks to the meetings of National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar with Intensive and related parties work of Joint Coordination Center.
Sierra Leone-flagged dry cargo ship Razoni, namely first The ship to leave Ukrainian ports within range of The agreement, which covers 120 days, sailed towards the Lebanese port of Tripoli with 26,000 tons of corn.
Four days after Razzoni’s departure, three ships, the Panamanian-flagged Navistar Ireland, the Maltese-flagged Rogen, and the Italo-Turkish ship Polarent. left ports of Odessa and Chernomorsk with about 60 thousand tons of wheat.
After that, the ships named Mustafa Necati, Star Helena, Glory, Riva Wind, Sakura, Arizona, Ocean Lion, Rahmi Yagci and Sormovsky 121 set She sailed from the ports of the war-ridden country, and they numbered of The number of ships departing was 17 as of August 13th. Most of The ships reached the ports in Turkey such as Tekirdağ, Iskenderun and Izmir.
Within two weeks after departure of The first ship, Nr of The number of ships that left Ukrainian ports reached 25 and amount of Transported grain exceeded 800 thousand tons.
Agreement reached as result of Efforts to prevent a food crisis about worldincluding not just leaving of Ships from Ukrainian ports however also The shipment of Grain to Ukrainian ports by controlled ships in Istanbul. Accordingly, the first The ship that was heading to Ukraine after taking control of the Bosphorus Strait was the Barbados-flagged Fulmar S. up 12,000 tons of Corn from the port of Chernomorsk and transported to Izmir, Turkey.
Leadership diplomacy
While grain shipments continued, Russia informed the United Nations and Turkish authorities on On October 29, the grain initiative was paused due to what it said were attacks in Sevastopol occupied and controlled by Russia. Then get out of Ships have been stopped from Ukrainian ports.
Turkish immediately took action to prevent further deepening of the crisis. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held telephone talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky issue.
in the layout with Instructions of Erdogan, who He carries out Leadership Diplomacy also a job hard to keep the grain aisle open.
Acar who he is in Getting close to people with “The grain initiative is useful for All parties, I will disable it cause problems for All Parties.”
red line diplomacy
within range of efforts to solve Grain crisis, “red line” diplomacy implemented in May, reactivated on instructions of Acar in this process.
Administrators of The Ministry of National Defense held talks with The military Officials of Ukraine and Russia on Extension of the agreement over this line.
After telephone diplomacy and extensive talks, military delegations of Representatives of Turkey, Ukraine, Russia and the United Nations gathered in Callender’s pavilion, where the institutions were established of The grain aisle has been laid.
Two days before expiry of Deal, Erdogan announced to me public It was decided to extend the agreement for 120 days result of Positive conversations.
Thus, within range of ongoing shipmentthe number of The number of ships that left Ukrainian ports reached 501 km of November 28 and no of Shipment of grain products such as wheat, corn and barley exceeded 12 million tons.
More than 200 of Ships leaving Ukrainian ports with Grain goods were transported to the designated ports.
