However, in careful official usage, Greek authorities and media distinguish between "violations" (παραβιάσεις) of the national airspace, and "transgressions" (παραβάσεις) of traffic regulations, i.e. Odatv.com said that Greek and Latvian coast guard ships operate around Agathonisi illegally, thereby violating Turkish territory.As proof of the claim, the report uses a 1951 British map and a 1957 U.S. map in which Agathonisi belongs to the Turkish Republic.On the Greek side, Konstantinos Koutras, a Foreign Ministry official, said that, “No doubt exists on the status of any island or islet in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean.
Turkish President Erdogan. According to the Turkish argument, these islets, while not explicitly retained under Turkish sovereignty in 1923, were also not explicitly ceded to any other country, and their sovereignty has therefore remained objectively undecided. The report comes after a discussion in Turkish parliament a few weeks ago regarding 16 islands of the Aegean that supposedly belong to Turkey but are under “Greek occupation.”The Turkish side claims that under a treaty, Italy gave Greece some islands in the Aegean without specifying which, therefore several islands belong to the successor of the Ottoman Empire, In the past, Turkey has claimed that the island of According to the report, Greece has achieved to occupy and establish sovereignty of the islands with the collaboration of Frontex, the European Union agency that manages cooperation between national border guards, and Latvia. The Aegean dispute is a set of interrelated controversies between Greece and Turkey over sovereignty and related rights in the region of the Aegean Sea. By. I don’t think Turkey would like to start a war with Greece, it will be the end for Turkey. Two Turkish There have been a number of disputes related to the territories of the Greek islands themselves. Everything else would be pretty much the same as today but Cyprus would be all-Greek and maybe fully part of Greece politically too?LOL. Yet, Turkey is only one of 15 countries in the whole world who has not signed the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.Andrew Jacovides, former Cypriot Ambassador to the United Nations, United States and Germany, explains in a This negates the Turkish position that these zones of maritime jurisdiction should be determined by criteria such as size, population, geomorphology, etc. Shortly after the This disagreement has led to similar practical consequences as the issue of 6 versus 10 miles of national airspace, as Greece considers all Turkish military flights not registered with its FIR authorities as transgressions of international air traffic regulations, and routinely has its own air force jets intercepting the Turkish ones. If Turkey occupies Cyprus where are the sanctions against Turkey? Who are you kidding?
These islands were placed under a demilitarization statute by the These islands were placed under a demilitarization statute after the Second World War by the The first time a dispute between the two countries in the Aegean touched on questions of actual sovereignty over territories was in early 1996 at the tiny barren islets of During the crisis and in the months following it, both governments elaborated legal arguments to support their claims to sovereignty. A newly published Turkish book has laid claim to Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, news site Greek City Times said.. Greece came way before Turkey which means Greece had those islands first!!! Whereas Turkey has traditionally preferred to regard the whole set of topics as a The resulting stalemate between both sides over process was partially changed after 1999, when the European summit of Helsinki opened up a path towards Kemal Başlar (2001): Two facets of the Aegean Sea dispute: 'de lege lata' and 'de lege ferenda'. ), The incident was first described as an accident. It was authored by the recently retired Turkish Admiral Cihat Yayci, who is considered the “architect” of the agreement with the Muslim Brotherhood government Libya to steal Greek maritime space. Christian invaders slaughtered millions of native aborigines and red Indians to make way for European settlers such as the corrupt Greeks to settle for a better life? Writing in “Requirements of Greece. Why is Turkey still illegally occupying after 50 years?Interesting to see how Greeks will conquer Turkey?