Evangeline Anovilis Posted August 15, 2014 Report Share Posted August 15, 2014 Confidential Following the proclamation of protection over the Marmara Region and deployment of Romanian troops, the Romanians would put great effort into consolidating their power at the Bosporus. Constantinopol, as the town would be referred to now in internal communiques of the Romanian authorities, would need to be secured, in order to prevent the reduction of Romania to a de facto landlocked country bordering the world's biggest lake. Romanian troops were securing the streets of the metropolis and experts fluent in Turkish and Greek were working with the local authorities to allow for the people to continue their usual lives without issue. In the surrounding lands meanwhile, the Romanian marine infantry would start entrenching themselves, so as to prevent anyone else from easily entering into the region, which Greater Romania saw as vital to its own well-being. Across the rolling hills, military outposts would be set up, for now more provisory in nature, later to be replaced by more permenent structures. Requests would be sent home for air defense systems, as well as for additional soldiers, to allow for more adequate defense of the new holdings. OOC: Istanbul 1/7, Marmara 2/7 Decided to make a new thread for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evangeline Anovilis Posted August 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2014 Public Greater Romania, in the interest of peace, stability and prosperity in the Black Sea, hereby lines out the following policy towards maritime passage of Dardanelles and Bosporus (henceforth referred to as the Straits), which we would ask foreign countries to follow, in order to avoid difficulties. Civil shipping through the Straits will be unrestricted in principle and only subject to restrictions posed by geography and the Maritime Authority of the Straits in Constantinopol, which shall enforce no restrictions on shipping other than those necessary to avoid maritime accidents that would cause unnecessary issues to shipping through the Straits. Civil shipping also may be subject to routine patrols and searches, so as to make sure this policy is not abused for non-civil shipping under the guise of civil shipping and to maintain the confidence in this policy being upheld. Military shipping and non-civil shipping through the Straits is restricted solely to nations bordering the Black Sea, or to nations with access rights to Black Sea ports, after clearance with the Romanian government in Bucharest. Transit of military and non-civil vessels through the Straits has however to be announced to the Maritime Authority of the Straits in Constantinopol prior to transit, to allow secure passage without incident. Military vessels passing through the Straits in peacetime will not be subject to inspections, as long as their transfer has been announced priorely. Nations at war with Greater Romania, or with a Romanian ally, may be refused transit through the Straits, due to the security risk posed to the Romanian holdings at the Straits. Black Sea nations at war with a nation that is neither Greater Romania, nor one of its allies, may be refused military and non-civil transit through the Straits, as such would compromise Romanian neutrality in such a conflict. During wartime, Romania maintains for itself the right to inspect and escort all military vessels of non-belligerent nations, in order to guarantee the security of the Romanian nation. Unless bound via other agreements, Romania reserves for itself the right to amend this policy, should it find them a major threat to its security. Signed,Maria I de România [hr] Confidential In the surrounding areas of the Straits, the Romanian forces would set up SAM and ASM batteries, to ensure the security of the Straits. Additionally, 4 corvettes would be permanently stationed at Constantinopol, in order to assist the patrol vessels in maintaining security. OOC: Istanbul 2/7, Marmara 3/7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evangeline Anovilis Posted August 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2014 The Romanian monarch would appoint Carol Nicolescu as governor of Constantinopol and the Straits. Residing in the Topkapi Palace, the governor would be tasked with administering the area, which population-wise, after all, was about as large as Romania proper. Still, the territory would be slowly getting a proper authority, which would be responsible directly to the Queen of the Romanians. Topkapi Palace entrance The surrounding areas would get Romanian adminstration too, with the two centres of Adrianopol and Bursa, which would be governing the European and the Asian part of the Marmara region respectively, both under the overall authority of the Governor in Constantinopol. The many villages would get their own smaller communal councils, elected by locals, however, above the municipal level, the Romanians would govern top-down, cooperating with local elites for the intermediate level and installing ethnic Romanians for highest-level officials, as well as all military-related matters. OOC: Istanbul 3/7, Marmara 4/7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Euphaia Posted August 17, 2014 Report Share Posted August 17, 2014 Not Punlic Except to Romania Hungary-Slovakia, having a port by the Red Sea, would offer it's close,ally Romania the assistance of Hungarian corvettes and patrol boats in controlling the Black Sea and the Straits, and in keeping them safe and secured. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evangeline Anovilis Posted August 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2014 Private to Hungary "The Romanian Navy appreciates the gesture, however, we politely decline, as we think that due to the special importance of these waterway, the Straits' security is best protected by our forces alone, which also posess more than enough assets to do so. We do not aim to insult the Magyar navy, however, we do not want to cause unnecessary strain on our relations with other Black Sea nations by giving any preferential treatment in this very specific case." -Carol Nicolescu, Governor of Constantinopol [hr] Confidential To assist the governor in Constantinopol, a council of ministers for the Marmara territory would be established. These ministers, responsible for their respective areas in the region would however be subject to the cabinet in Bucharest, as well as to the governor. Romania would start to transform the structure of administration and public services more and more towards the models followed in Greater Romania proper, in order to properly integrate the territory. With a large portion of the town being muslim Turks, however, plans to assimilate such a population would be hard, if not impossible, and so the Romanian authorities would work on a plan to accomodate Turkish religious and cultural authonomy, while settling Daco-Romanians at the Straits. Many already would come with the administrative staff, however more would be hired as garrisons, as priests and missionaries, teachers, experts, architects and settlers from rural Romania. Additionally, plans were made to resettle some of the Ukrainians of the Bugeac to the Straits, in return for moving Turks to the Basarabian Black Sea coast. These plans naturally would be approved behind closed doors and carried out gradually. In order to increase the security from the outside, the construction of three fortification complexes would be approved, Fortăreață Callipol and Fortăreață Çanakkale at the Southern entrance of the Dradanelles and Fortăreață Adrianopol near Adrianopol. These fortresses, hoped to assist in defending the Straits from intruders would be fielding up to three thick walls, barracks for garrisons, underground facilities for ammunition storage and handling, fixed armoured gun turrets for 130 mm and 155 mm guns and a good number of surface-to-surface missiles of variable ranges. C-RAM units located at the site are reinforced by dispersed long and medium-range anti-air missile assets. The three marine divisions also are gradually replaced by six permanently stationed motorised infantry divisions. OOC: Istanbul 4/7, Marmara 5/7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Euphaia Posted August 18, 2014 Report Share Posted August 18, 2014 Private to Romania That is understandable and Hungayr-Slovakia shall respect Romania's wishes in regards to the Strait. We shall inform our navy to keep their border patrol within a 12 mile radius of our port on the Black Sea; and once we have been granted a port in the Baltics, to a 12 mile radius of that port, as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evangeline Anovilis Posted August 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 Confidential The security with the Constantinopol area has been reinforced, as the secret police finally establishes a more permanent branch in the city. From now on, political activism is carefully observed, seperatism, anti-monarchism and any other corrupted thought is to be slowly rooted out. Censure and informants are established, in order to make sure, that the royal authorities always know what is happening and slowly, a net of contacts is being spun in the shadows of the Constantinopol. Dissidents would be facing sanctions, according to the severity of their crimes, ranging from discrimination when looking for work or social services, to getting taken away by men in black uniforms in the middle of the night. The Securitate Regale would expand fast, encouraging collaboration through incentives, but also via more coercive means. Like in Romania proper, new political realities would come with the ascent of the new monarch. Another fortress would be planned for Bursa, to fortify the Southern Marmara region. This would bring the number of fortifications to four, altough further units in the field would work together with these static defenses, in order to maximise the defence at the Straits. At the Bosporus itself, multiple coastal gun emplacements would be constructed, in order to assist in case of attack from the Northern side. Fortifications however served not merely the purpose of guarding from the outside, but they also provided a means of controlling the civil population, which was after all, quite sizable. OOC: Istanbul 5/7, Marmara 6/7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evangeline Anovilis Posted August 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2014 Confidential After a few months, the Romabnian administration seemed to work rather well, Romanian flags were flown on public buildings, Romanian soldiers were guarding important buildings, Romanian police was patrolling the streets, Romanian secret police was bashing dissidents and Romanian language was the official administrative language on the upper levels, soon also on lower levels. It would be taught at school, in order to ensure that the new citizens of the Marmara territory were fluent in the language of their overlords. In Constantinopol itself, the official annexation of the region would be planned to be celebrated by a visit from the Romanian monarch. Thus, the town would be prepared to receive Her Majesty Maria I de România, Queen of the Romanians and soon Protector of Constantinopol and the Straits. Foodstuff, flags, artists, guards, the governor would order the stocking up on all of it, as the celebrations would be of greatest importance, as they had to succeed, lest Nicolescu wanted to lose his job. OOC: Istanbul 6/7, Marmara 7/7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evangeline Anovilis Posted August 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2014 Public Today, the Romanian battleship Ardeal has docked in Constantinopol, transporting Her Majesty Maria I de România, Queen of the Romanians. Her Majesty, in her Grace has visited the city in order to inspect by herself the level of integration of the Marmara Territory into Romania, to visit her new subjects, but also to officially annex the territory. While the necessary documents have been prepared for quite some time, Her Majesty Maria I has today been proclaimed officially as Protector of the Straits. While Her Most Orthodox Majesty (a style assumed to reflect the protection over the Eastern Patriarchate) has been making sure that everything was in order, citizens of Constantinopol have celebrated the official integration, as the governor has decreet this day an extraordinary holiday, with plenty of food and drink, music and dance, joy and happiness. and Romanian tricolors. OOC: Istanbul 7/7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evangeline Anovilis Posted August 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2014 (edited) Confidential After a couple weeks, the Romanian authorities noted that some tracts in the East had not been properly integrated and that for some reason, Romanian laws did not apply there. As there lived another million Turks there, and the nation had enough of those, plans were drawn up to do something about them. OOC: Rest-Marmara 1/7 Edited August 22, 2014 by Evangeline Anovilis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evangeline Anovilis Posted August 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 Confidential The governor would order that the two provinces be shut down, so as to be administered seperately from the rest of Marmara from now on. Once that happened, the government would raze all mosques and Turkish schools, to replace them with churches and Romanian schools. The population would now be forcefully Romanised! OOC: Rest-Marmara 2/7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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