Turkey officially disputes the sovereignty of 152 Greek islands and islets · Greek City Times | Greek City Times

Since the 1996 Imia Crisis that brought Greece and Turkey to the brink of war, Ankara has been steadily following the policy of “grey zones” in the Aegean. Within the last few months the Turkish leadership has repeatedly questioned the validity of the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne and the 1947 Treaty of Paris, the two international agreements that settled the borders between Greece and Turkey. Moreover, with a series of provocative remarks, top level state officials -including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu- have questioned Greece’s sovereignty on a number of islands.