ITUR (Italy - Turkey - Ukraine - Russia) is a

submarine communications cable A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea. The first submarine communications cables laid beginning in the 1850s carried tel ...

system linking the aforementioned countries. It has landing points in: #

Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...

, Sicily, Italy # Istanbul, Turkey #

Odessa Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrativ ...

, Ukraine #

Novorossiysk Novorossiysk ( rus, Новоросси́йск, p=nəvərɐˈsʲijsk; ady, ЦIэмэз, translit=Chəməz, p=t͡sʼɜmɜz) is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. It is one of the largest ports on the Black Sea. It is one of the few cities hono ...

, Russia

References

https://web.archive.org/web/20070930122255/http://foptnet.ge/map2eng.htm
Map of the cable system (3 Systems

BSFOCS The Black Sea Fiber-Optic Cable System (BSFOCS) is a submarine telecommunications cable system linking three countries bordering the Black Sea.KAFOS KAFOS (Karadeniz Fiber Optik Sistemi - ''Black Sea Fibre Optic System'') is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Black Sea linking Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey. It has landing points in: *Mangalia, Romania * Varna, Bulgaria *Istanb ...

, & ITUR) Submarine communications cables in the Black Sea Submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea Russia–Ukraine relations Russia–Turkey relations Italy–Russia relations Italy–Turkey relations {{telecomm-stub