Islands of Turkey

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Chapters: Islands of Lake Van, Islands of the Sea of Marmara, North Aegean islands, Uninhabited islands of Turkey, Lemnos, Imia/Kardak, Samos, Imbros, Akdamar Island, Princes' Islands, Tenedos, Icaria, List of islands of Turkey, Psara, Agios Efstratios, Marmara Island, Chios, Galatasaray Islet, Fournoi Korseon, Heybeliada, Imrali, Ikaria, Kekova, Oinousses, Büyükada, Samiopoula, Ayvalik Islands Nature Park, Yassiada, Chryse Island, Giresun Island, Cunda Island, Sivriada, Rabbit Islands, Kinaliada, Dolichiste, Sedef Island, Avsa, Dana Adasi, Antipsara, Burgazada, Sedir Island, Gökçeada, Kasik Island, Iç Ada, Antalya, Koukonesi, Pasalimani, Ammouliani, Kara Ada, Elaea, Akça, Garip Island, Southern Sporades, Büyük Ada, Arter Island, Çatalada, Ktuts Island, Nissiopi, Incirburnu, Gökçeada, Incir Ada, Küçük Tavsan Adasi, Lim Island, Salih Ada, Kargi Adasi, Yilancik Ada, Metalik Ada, Fener Ada, Foça Islands. Excerpt: Imia (Greek: , Turkish: ) is a pair of two small uninhabited islets in the Aegean Sea, situated between the Greek island chain of the Dodecanese and the southwestern mainland coast of Turkey. They lie 3.8 nautical miles (7.0 km; 4.4 mi) west of the coast of Mugla Province, 5.5 nmi (10.2 km; 6.3 mi) east of the Greek island Kalymnos, and 2.5 nmi (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) southeast of the nearest small Greek islet, Kalolimnos. Their total surface area is 10 acres (4.0 ha). The islands are also referred to as Limnia in Greek, or Ikizce in Turkish, or as Heipethes in some early-20th century maps. Imia/Kardak was the object of a military crisis and subsequent dispute over sovereignty between Greece and Turkey in 1996. The Imia-Kardak 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 islands. In the aftermath of the Imia/Kardak crisis, the dispute was also widened, as Turkey began to lay parallel claims to a larger number of other islets in the Aegean. These islands, some of them inhabited, are regarded as indisputably Greek by Greece but as grey zones of undetermined sovereignty by Turkey. While several other aspects of sovereignty rights in the Aegean had been a hotly disputed topic between the two countries for decades, conflicts over the possession of actual territory in the area were unknown until the end of 1995. The dispute over Imia arose on the occasion of a naval accident on 25 December 1995 when the Turkish cargo ship Figen Akat on purpose ran ashore on the islets and had to be salvaged. It turned out that the Turkish maps that the captain of the cargo ship had, were showing conflicting attributions of the islets to either Greece and Turkey. This at first resulted in a conflict between the Turkish captain and the Greek authorities over who was responsible for the salvage operation. On 27 December, the Tu