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  2. Aegean dispute - Wikipedia

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    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. This set of conflicts has strongly affected Greek-Turkish relations since the 1970s, and has twice led to crises coming close to the outbreak of military hostilities, in 1987 and in early 1996.

  3. 1987 Aegean crisis - Wikipedia

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    Oil was discovered off Thasos, in 1973. Greece claimed ownership of mineral rights in the continental shelf extending from beneath all its islands in the Aegean. Turkey proposed that the continental shelf be divided through negotiations. [3]

  4. Cyprus–Turkey maritime zones dispute - Wikipedia

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    The continental shelf of Cyprus is defined according to the Continental Shelf Law which was adopted in 1974. After ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in 1988, Cyprus adopted a new law in 2004, which limited its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) by 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi).

  5. Imia - Wikipedia

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    Imia was the object of a military crisis and subsequent dispute over sovereignty between Greece and Turkey in 1996. The Imia dispute is part of the larger Aegean dispute, which also comprises disputes over the continental shelf, the territorial waters, the air space, the Flight Information Regions (FIR) and the demilitarization of the Aegean ...

  6. Talk:Aegean dispute - Wikipedia

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    "In the context of the Aegean dispute, the term continental shelf refers to a littoral state's exclusive right to economic exploitation of resources on and under the sea-bed (...). The width of the continental shelf is commonly defined for purposes of international law as not exceeding 200 nautical miles.

  7. Philippines files UN claim to extended continental shelf in ...

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    The Philippines filed a claim with the U.N. on Saturday to an extended continental shelf (ECS) in the South China Sea, a waterway where it has had increasingly confrontational maritime disputes ...

  8. List of International Court of Justice cases - Wikipedia

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    Aegean Sea Continental Shelf Case Greece Turkey: 10 August 1976 [125] 19 December 1978: Judgment on Jurisdiction 63: Continental Shelf (Tunisia/Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) Libya Tunisia: 1 December 1978 [126] 24 February 1982: Judgment on Merits 64: United States Diplomatic and Consular Staff in Tehran United States Iran: 29 November 1979 [127] 24 ...

  9. ‘The whole island has emptied:’ Thousands flee Santorini as ...

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    Over the past three days, some 550 tremors with a magnitude of 3.0 have been recorded in the Aegean Sea, between Santorini and the nearby islands of Amorgos and Ios.