- The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations
- Issue: 29
- DISPUTED ISLETS AND ROCKS IN THE SEA AEGEAN
DISPUTED ISLETS AND ROCKS IN THE SEA AEGEAN
Authors : Erdem Denk
Pages : 131-155
Doi:10.1501/Intrel_0000000262
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Publication Date : 1999-05-01
Article Type : Research
Abstract :Disputed islets question between Greece and Turkey has started with an accident occurred on 25 Dccember 1995 near Kardak/Imia Rocks in the Southeast Aegean Sea. After a few days of silence. diplomatic notes were exchanged between the parti es in which both Greece and Turkey claimed that they were the real owner of the said rocks and blamed the other for following a revisionist policy. These made the crisis more complex. The crisis which escalated during the first days of January 1996 has settled down with the mediation of third parties (especially the USA), and Greece and Turkey has added the issue to their long-list of existing bilateral disputes. Before starting to analyse the status of the islands. islets and rocks of the Aegcan Sea causing the dispute. it must be said that the related islands. islcts and rocks which are the subject of the dispute are especially the ones lying in the Southeast Aegcan region which are known generallyas South Sporades that also include the Dodecanese Islands.Keywords : DISPUTED ISLET, ROCK, SEA AEGEAN