Istanbul viewed from the BosphorusANKARA, Mar 27 There is no emergency in the Black Sea, mine search vessels are on duty, Turkish National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said. Earlier, the Turkish newspaper Star wrote that the movement of a mine-like object was observed at the entrance to the Bosphorus. Later, the Turkish Ministry of Defense confirmed that the object found was a mine, and announced negotiations with Moscow and Kiev on this issue. The strait was closed to ship traffic, and later ship traffic resumed. «There is no emergency in the Black Sea. Our ships are on duty to search for mines,» Akar told reporters. approaches to the ports of Odessa, Ochakov, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny. The service did not rule out the possibility of the drift of derailed mines into the Bosphorus and further into the seas of the Mediterranean basin due to the current. The Turkish Navy has asked ships to track drifting mines following a Russian FSB report, the Hürriyet newspaper reported earlier. In turn, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that the country's Ministry of Defense is taking the necessary measures in connection with information about drifting mines in the Black Sea. Ukrainian naval mines will reach Romania in four days
