The government of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" id="mwzg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> presented a note to its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey" id="mwzw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Turkey">Turkish counterparts</a> which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Straits" id="mw0A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Turkish Straits">Turkish Straits</a>, thus beginning the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Straits_crisis" id="mw0Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Turkish Straits crisis">Turkish Straits crisis</a>.<sup about="#mwt130" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-25"}}' id="cite_ref-25" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_7#cite_note-25" id="mw0g" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 25;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw0w">[25]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-25"><cite about="#mwt127" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFRozakes1987">Rozakes, Chrestos (1987). <i id="mwB6c">Turkish Straits</i>. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p.<span id="mwB6g" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>43.</cite><span about="#mwt127" class="Z3988" id="mwB6k" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Turkish+Straits&amp;rft.place=Dordrecht&amp;rft.pages=43&amp;rft.pub=Martinus+Nijhoff+Publishers&amp;rft.date=1987&amp;rft.aulast=Rozakes&amp;rft.aufirst=Chrestos&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+7"></span></span>