{"id":60776,"date":"2026-07-08T10:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/turkey-bulgaria-romania-expand-black-sea-mine-mission-at-nato-summit\/08\/07\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T10:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:47:20","slug":"turkey-bulgaria-romania-expand-black-sea-mine-mission-at-nato-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/turkey-bulgaria-romania-expand-black-sea-mine-mission-at-nato-summit\/08\/07\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania expand Black Sea mine mission at NATO summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania signed an agreement on Wednesday expanding their joint Black Sea mine countermeasures mission to include the protection of critical undersea infrastructure, Turkey&#8217;s Defence Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The amendment to the memorandum governing the three countries&#8217; Black Sea Mine Countermeasures Task Group (MCM Black Sea) was signed by the three defence ministers on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, the Turkish ministry said on its website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The task force was established in 2024 to tackle drifting sea mines set loose by Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine that threatened shipping in the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-accent\/2 pb-5 md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_33ihlhl8b4lubsnqq5bH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[#_R_33ihlhl8b4lubsnqq5bH1_ { display: none; }\n@media screen and (max-width: 767.95px) {\n        #_R_33ihlhl8b4lubsnqq5bH1_ { display: flex; }\n        iframe { max-width: 100vw; }\n      }]]><\/style>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It is the first trilateral initiative of its kind among NATO members bordering the Black Sea and has since focused on clearing mines from key maritime trade routes, according to state broadcaster TRT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">State news agency Anadolu quoted Romanian Foreign Minister Oana \u021aoiu as saying that she welcomed the expanded cooperation and that joint efforts by Bulgaria, Turkey and Ukraine have helped keep Black Sea grain shipping routes operational in recent years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/world\/articles\/turkey-bulgaria-romania-expand-black-141832321.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania signed an agreement on Wednesday expanding their joint Black Sea mine countermeasures mission to include the protection of<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/turkey-bulgaria-romania-expand-black-sea-mine-mission-at-nato-summit\/08\/07\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/S7PEirRBZ.NntUJNxVTMrA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD03OTg7Y2Y9d2VicA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/dpa_international_526\/50e1c52a02a43fec027f6cefb483edfb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}