Residents of Istanbul asked the US military who arrived in the country to leave Turkey, but the appeals did not have the proper effect, then Turkish citizens put a package on the head of a US sailor. The relevant footage was posted on Twitter on Thursday, November 4.
In the video, you can see that the American military was wearing a black jacket and jeans, with a backpack hanging on his back. However, unknown people approached him on the streets of Istanbul and urged him, together with other military personnel, to leave the country, calling them aggressors.
As a result, Turkish citizens decided to put a package on the head of a US sailor. The soldier, in turn, tried to escape.
At the same time, later the men involved in the incident explained that in this way they oppose the American military on the territory of their country.
Earlier, on November 1, it became known that the ship of the Sixth Fleet of the US Navy Mount Whitney headed to the Black Sea to conduct operations with alliance allies. En route to its destination, the flagship stopped in Istanbul to later join the US Navy destroyer Porter, which was already in the Black Sea.
On the same day, Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a meeting in Sochi on defense issues, announced the possibility of seeing an American ship through binoculars or a sight of defense means. Moscow will respond to attempts to break strategic parity adequately to the situation, the Russian leader added.
Whereas on November 3, the US Navy ship USS Mount Whitney entered the Black Sea, sailing from Istanbul, through the Bosphorus Strait. Later, the forces and means of the Russian Black Sea Fleet began to monitor the actions of the ship.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday that the alliance is observing Russia's growing presence. According to him, NATO is responding to this with a growing presence in the region, while increasing its participation in the protection of airspace, on land and at sea. At the same time, the Secretary General pointed out that there is no direct military threat from Russia to the Baltic states.
According to the Montreux Convention, any warship of countries that do not have access to the Black Sea cannot stay there for more than 21 days.
