Imia

Imia
Disputed islands
Imia is located in Greece
Imia
Imia
Imia is located in Turkey
Imia
Imia
Other namesKardak, Limnia, İkizce, Heipethes
Geography
LocationAegean Sea
Coordinates37°03′03″N 27°09′04″E / 37.05083°N 27.15111°E / 37.05083; 27.15111
Total islands2
Area4 ha (9.9 acres)
Claimed by
Greece
Turkey
Demographics
Population0

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.

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.

  1. ^ Arapoglou, Stergios, Major. "Dispute in the Aegean Sea". Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Archived from the original on July 24, 2013. Retrieved 2013-07-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)