Word: aegean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ATHENS-- Greece and Turkey have agreed to resume negotiations in January to resolve the conflict over mining rights in the Aegean...
Relations between Greece and Turkey were further strained by a jurisdictional dispute in the Aegean Sea. Ever since oil was discovered off Thassos in 1971,* Greece has insisted that each of the 3,000 Greek islands in the sea has its own continental shelf, making the Aegean an exclusively Greek preserve. The Turks claim that the continental shelf of the Anatolian mainland bestows about half of the Aegean on Turkey. Two years ago, the countries came to the brink of war after Turkey sent an oil-exploration vessel around the area to establish Turkish rights. Meanwhile, both countries still maintain...
Averoff said that Turkey's current claims on certain disputed oil-rich islands in the Aegean Sea would not be accepted by Greece...
...rowboat into a stormy sea off Greece. What she plunges into is some of the phoniest-looking surf since a toy ship foundered in the special-effects tank in The Caine Mutiny. It looks all the more phony because we have earlier seen stunning views of the real Aegean. This neatly symbolizes the trouble with The Other Side of Midnight: the backgrounds are convincing, the drama has been churned up at the studio...
...violence has so fragmented Turkey that it is possible that neither Demirel nor Ecevit will win any kind of mandate. If that happens, the Aegean crisis will continue to fester. Greece's Caramanlis, for one, is so pessimistic about the situation that he has begun to feel that the Turkish military-the generals who plotted the hated attack on Cyprus -may turn out to be the only stable group with whom Greece can deal...