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Turkey and Greece on Monday exchanged more mutual recrimination over 92 migrants who were found stripped naked by Greek authorities at the two countries’ joint border, a day after the United ...
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.
The events at the Greek-Turkish border along the Evros river in 2020 began on 28 February 2020 when the Turkish government announced that in response to the death of 33 Turkish soldiers in Idlib, [1] it was unilaterally opening its borders to Greece to allow refugees and migrants seeking refuge to reach the European Union.
Following the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, the present course of the border was established in 1923 by the Treaty of Lausanne, which also left the so-called "Karaağaç Triangle" (Greek: Τρίγωνο του Καραγάτς), a suburb of the city of Edirne, Turkey, as a Turkish exclave on the western side of the river.
Satellite image of the Aegean Sea Map of the Aegean Sea 6 nautical miles (nmi): Current territorial waters recognized by Greece and Turkey, and airspace as recognized by Turkey 10 nmi: Current national airspace claimed by Greece 12 nmi: Extent of territorial waters and national airspace defined as a legal right by UNCLOS, to which Turkey is not a signatory
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.
In January 1996, Greece and Turkey came close to an armed confrontation over the question of which country had sovereignty over an islet in the Aegean. In July 1997, on the sidelines of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Madrid, Greek and Turkish leaders reached agreement on six principles to govern their bilateral relations ...
Greece and Turkey both fight in the Korean War on the side of the UN forces. [212] 1952: 18 February: Greece and Turkey officially become members of NATO. [213] 1953: 28 February: The Balkan Pact between Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia is enacted. [214] 1955: 6–7 September: The Istanbul pogrom, in which the Greek population of Istanbul were ...