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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.
Greece controversially extended this limit to six miles (9.7 km) in 1936, which Turkey did not dispute due to good relations and reciprocated in 1964. [119] The conference for the UN sea treaty UNCLOS defined territorial waters in 1982 and came into force in 1994.
ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece and Turkey on Thursday agreed to reboot their relations, establishing a roadmap designed to usher in a new era of ties between the two NATO allies but historic foes. In a ...
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 ...
Tensions between Greece and Turkey are high after a series of military moves that some analysts fear could spill over into open conflict between the two longtime foes.
Greece is ready to start talks with Turkey to resolve a long-standing dispute over maritime borders that has repeatedly brought the two neighbors to the brink of armed conflict, Greece’s newly ...
The 2020 Greek–Turkish maritime crisis began in July 2020, in the eastern Aegean Sea.The Turkish government announced a NAVTEX which was called illegal by both governments in Greece and Cyprus, and brought the two nations at their closest to war since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, and the Imia crisis in 1996.
Turkey wants to resolve a dispute with Greece over energy exploration in the eastern Mediterranean through dialog, Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said on Wednesday, but added that Ankara would ...