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At the start of the 2020 Greek–Turkish border crisis in late February 2020, migrants started to gather at the Greek-Turkish land border after Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that he would no longer "block" refugees and migrants' "access to the border", and opened the border with Greece. [11] [12] Turkey's government was also ...
One aspect of the dispute is the differing interpretations of the maritime law: Turkey has not signed up to the Convention on the Continental Shelf nor the superseding United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which as of July 2024 has been signed by 170 parties, including Greece; as such, Turkey does not recognize a legal continental ...
The 2016 Turkey-Israel reconciliation led to Greece sabotaging the 2017 Cyprus–UN talks to reunify the island, preventing Israel and Turkey from developing a gas pipeline. [150] In 2019, the east Mediterranean gas forum was created, including seven countries but excluding Turkey.
Syria does (as of 1990) not recognize its border with Turkey because of a dispute of the 1939 transfer of Hatay Province following a referendum that favored union with Turkey. [7] Main articles: Greece–Turkey border; Bulgaria–Turkey border; Armenia–Turkey border; Azerbaijan–Turkey border; Georgia–Turkey border; Iran–Turkey border ...
Pushbacks and arrivals on Greece's Aegean border during 2020 according to Mare Liberum e.V. Pushbacks on Greece's Aegean border from March 2020 to August 2021 according to Mare Liberum. According to the Turkish interior ministry, Greece illegally deported 58,283 migrants to Turkey in the 12 months before 1 November 2018, but Greece disputes this.
Four Greek border guard officers were on duty along the Evros River, the land border with Turkey, shortly after 6 p.m. Saturday, when three or four shots rang out from the Turkish side, police said.
On 14 August, Turkey demanded that Greece accept a Cypriot federal state, which would have resulted in the Turkish Cypriots - making up 18% of the population and 10% of land ownership – receiving 34% of the island. The talks ended when Turkey refused Clerides' request for 36 to 48 hours to consult the Cypriot and Greek governments.
Twenty sovereign countries in Southern Europe, Western Asia and North Africa regions border the sea itself, two island nations completely located in it (Malta and Cyprus), in addition to two British Overseas Territories (Gibraltar in the west and Akrotiri & Dhekelia in the east).