Greece, Turkey open first crisis talks since 2016

Greek navy ships taking part in a military exercise in the eastern Mediterranean last August. ISTANBUL: Greece and Turkey bowed to EU and NATO pressure on Monday and opened the first direct talks in nearly five years over their explosive eastern Mediterranean standoff.

Hostilities flared anew last year when Ankara sent a research ship accompanied by a navy flotilla into waters near the Turkish shore, which Greece claims with EU support.Turkey is furious that Greece is using its vast web of islands to lay claim to huge swathes of the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas. But Ankara also accuses Athens of illegally stationing troops on some of its islands and wants to discuss aerial zones - a separate dispute that saw a Greek pilot killed when his jet collided with a Turkish one in 2006.

"The likely outcome of such adjudication would invalidate the use of some small Greek islands near Turkey's mainland... while upholding the use of larger islands and more distant islands," Tanchum said.

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