Turkey Oil Tanker Logjam Snarls Russia Oil Sanctions

Turkey Oil Tanker Logjam Snarls Russia Oil Sanctions
Crude oil tanker New Vision, carrying Kazakh oil, at the Dardanelles Anchorage off Sarkoy near Tekirdag, Turkey, on Dec. 9, 2022. Yoruk Isik/Reuters
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ISTANBUL—Turkey emerged as a critical stumbling block to a complex international plan to deprive Russia of wartime oil revenues as the number of tankers waiting to exit the Black Sea through Turkish straits continued to rise on Friday.

Ankara has declined to scrap a new insurance inspection rule it implemented at the beginning of the month despite days of pressure from Western officials.