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Political parties are pulling out all their big guns this weekend in a last-ditch attempt to woo voters ahead of Monday’s local government elections.

Amid war danger in Black Sea, Turkey threatens Montreux Convention As NATO escalates threats against Russia and China, a bitter conflict has erupted in the Turkish state machine over the Montreux Convention, an international treaty signed in 1936 governing passage between the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Sections of the navy are objecting to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s talk of using plans for an Istanbul Canal to scrap the Convention, which limits warship deployments to the Black Sea. ...