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Areas on the high alert are now: Attica, Central Greece, Peloponnese region, North Aegean, South Aegean, including Rhodes, and Crete. However, no areas are now listed as being in “extreme danger”.
Conversely, Greece is concerned that Turkey might try to "occupy half of the Aegean", i.e. establish Turkish zones of influence towards the middle of the Aegean, beyond the chain of outlying Greek islands, turning these into a kind of exclave surrounded by Turkish waters, and thus cutting them off from their motherland.
Heatwave temperatures set to peak across Europe today, exceeding 44C in Greece
Tuesday expected to bring more wildfires as ‘extreme fire risk’ issued for Crete and Rhodes
The ships ensured Greece kept its naval superiority in the Aegean against Turkey, which was threatening to reclaim the islands it had lost during the Balkan Wars. The sale of the ships was arranged by the Wilson Administration, including then Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, with Congressional authorization.
On 5 May 2014, a yacht and a dinghy, both overcrowded and carrying migrants destined for Greece, capsized about four nautical miles off the coast of the Greek island of Samos, [3] in the Aegean Sea. The vessels had been trying to enter Greece illegally at the time they overturned. [ 4 ]
Credit - Getty Images—Joakim Leroy T he second of two U.S. citizens to be reported as missing in the Greek Isles has been found dead. The man was last seen on Tuesday in Mathraki, a small island ...
An image of Dodecanese and Anatolian coasts. Imia is on the northernmost edge of the photo. Click to the photo to enlarge. While several other aspects of sovereignty rights in the Aegean, such as the territorial waters and national airspace, had been disputed between the two countries for decades, conflicts over the possession of island territory were unknown until the end of 1995.