Word: aegean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another issue divides Greece and Turkey: Who controls the Aegean? Homer's wine-dark sea is dotted with 3,049 Greek islands, some of which are only a few miles from Turkey's shores. Two years ago, the U.S. was able to mediate successfully between the two NATO partners when they approached the brink of war in a territorial dispute. Greece hinted it might extend territorial waters from six to twelve miles around each island; the Turks warned Washington that that would be a fighting matter, and the Greeks dropped the idea. With both sides now so angry...
...Aegean crisis began in 1974 after oil was discovered off the island of Thassos. Both nations, which are heavily dependent on foreign oil, began a search for other pools. Athens claimed that each of its islands has a continental shelf. Such a claim would preclude Turkish drilling in much of the Aegean. Nonetheless, the Turks last year dispatched the seismographic ship Sismik1 to carry on oil explorations near several Greek islands; the converted trawler was challenged by Greek destroyers and a battle was narrowly averted. Sismik1 was supposed to sail on another exploratory mission this month, but its departure...
...dispute involves sharply different views of the laws of the sea. Greece, citing the Geneva Convention of 1958, claims that each of its 3,049 Aegean islands has its own continental shelf extending outward until the water reaches a depth of 660 ft. Turkey, which never ratified the convention, claims that the only way to define the border is by the Anatolian Shelf, which extends midway out into the Aegean. The Greeks maintain that their view was endorsed at this year's continuing U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea. Says Turkey's President Fahri Koroturk...
...time the Sismik reached the Aegean, the whole 17,500-man Greek navy-seven submarines, 15 destroyers and 25 patrol boats-was on alert. Its main points of concern were the islands of Lemnos, Lesbos, Chios and Rhodes, all within 20 miles of the Turkish coast. During her first days in the Aegean, the Sismik confined herself to what were clearly Turkish waters, but then she began taking soundings off Lemnos. The Greek destroyer Lightning was ordered to close in on the Sismik. Its instructions: "Hold your fire, but be prepared for any eventuality." At the same time, however, fresh...
...Court of Justice at The Hague for a quick ruling. He also called for a conference of the heads of state of all Balkan nations. And as a final touch, he sent a Greek oil-exploration vessel, the 1,300-ton Nautilus, out on its own survey of the Aegean...