Imia
Unpopulated islet in southeastern Aegean / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Imia (Greek: Ίμια) is a pair of small uninhabited islets in the Aegean Sea, situated between the Greek island chain of the Dodecanese and the southwestern mainland coast of Turkey. They are known in Turkey as Kardak.
Disputed islands | |
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Other names | Kardak, Limnia, İkizce, Heipethes |
Geography | |
Location | Aegean Sea |
Coordinates | 37°03′03″N 27°09′04″E |
Total islands | 2 |
Area | 4 ha (9.9 acres) |
Claimed by | |
Greece | |
Turkey | |
Demographics | |
Population | 0 |
Imia was the object of a military crisis and subsequent dispute over sovereignty between Greece and Turkey in 1996. The Imia 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.[1] In the aftermath of the Imia 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.