The US plans to conduct the logistics of its war in that region through the Baltic Sea and Eastern Europe. By Halil Özsaraç, (Ret.) Turkish Staff Navy Captain In my previous article, I explained that inland trade routes could be useful only when connected to the sea. Otherwise, thousands of kilometers of land corridors linked end to end would fall ...

A discussion of the arguments with which Ankara justified joining the initiative. By Halil Özsaraç, (Ret.) Turkish Staff Navy Captain In the first article, I addressed the founding and development story of the “Three Seas Initiative” an imperialist project in which Türkiye was accepted as a “strategic partner”. At this point, it’s worth opening a parenthesis: the “Three Seas” that ...

Background and Türkiye’s accession. By Halil Özsaraç, (Ret.) Turkish Staff Navy Captain On April 29, 2025, Türkiye’s Minister of Transport and Infrastructure announced that Türkiye had become a “strategic partner” of the Three Seas Initiative. The Three Seas Initiative is an alliance established a decade ago in the region spanning the Baltic, Black, and Adriatic Seas in Central and Eastern ...