Aegean Islands row: Greece must show wisdom and prudence like Türkiye

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“Türkiye’s several appeals to Greece to respect the demilitarised status of these islands have been disregarded so far. Türkiye’s tolerance has been stretched thin with persistent violation of the demilitarised status of those islands” Opinion | adenkut

To understand the present, a look at the past is important. For, history often throws proper light on contemporary events. And to get a true measure of the controversy—unnecessary, to say the least—over a cluster of islands on the Aegean Sea, we must go back several decades when the 23 islands were transferred to Greece.

What are the international agreements that impose legal obligations on Greece about the demilitarised status of the Eastern Aegean Islands? The Treaty has an annexure titled The Convention of the Turkish Straits, which further defined the stricter demilitarised status of the islands of Lemnos and Samothrace due to their location close to the Turkish Straits and hence strategic concerns to the security of Türkiye.

Greece claims that the Paris Treaty has nothing to do with Türkiye as Ankara was not a signatory or that it had to militarise the islands as an act of self-defence as stipulated in Article 51 of the UN Charter. But facts and state practices state otherwise. For example, the NATO Defence Planning System has been blocked for at least a couple of decades due to Greek proposals asking for NATO’s accommodation of Greek military fighters and army units in the demilitarised islands of Lemnos. In some other cases, they had raised the demand in political forums in which the highest NATO officials had to counter Greek ambitious and illegal requests for NATO military presence in one or more of the demilitarised islands.

All in all, there is a direct linkage between the possession of sovereignty over those islands and their demilitarised status. Greece does not want to give up her ambitions of bypassing her international commitments and is not interested in resolving these issues by peaceful means. They disregard the jurisdiction of the sole forum for that, which is the International Court of Justice .

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