A NEW FORMATION IN THE BLACK SEA: BLACKSEAFOR

Yıl 2001, Cilt: 6 Sayı: 4, 0 - 0, 01.12.2001

Hasan Ulusoy

Öz

On 2 April 2001, Turkey hosted a signing ceremony of historic significance in the Çırağan Palace, Istanbul. At the ceremony, the littoral states of the Black Sea inked an Agreement on the establishment of the Black Sea Naval Co-operation Task Group, known as BLACKSEAFOR. By this Agreement, all the littoral states came together for the first time in the history of the region to pull their naval forces into a joint formation for realisation of common tasks. This paper provides information on this formation from an empirical perspective. However, before embarking on this, it will be of practical value to mention certain characteristics of the Black Sea itself