Imia
Sign in to saveImia () 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.
Key facts
- Islands.disputed
- yes
- Islands.name
- Imia
- Islands.plural
- yes
- Islands.other_names
- Kardak, Limnia, İkizce, Heipethes
- Islands.pushpin_map
- Greece#Turkey
- Islands.location
- Aegean Sea
- Islands.total_islands
- 2
- Islands.area_ha
- 4
- Islands.country1
- Greece
- Islands.country2
- Turkey
- Islands.population
- 0
- Military conflict.conflict
- Imia Crisis
- Military conflict.partof
- Aegean dispute
- Military conflict.image
- Kardak (Imia) Islets E-7218.jpg
- Military conflict.image_size
- 400px
- Military conflict.caption
- Location of the islands
- Military conflict.place
- Imia
- Military conflict.date
- 28–31 January 1996
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
15 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Background
- Military crisis
- Aftermath
- Later tensions
- Legal status
- Treaty of Lausanne
- Treaty of Ankara and protocol of 1932
- Treaty of Paris
- Later diplomatic relations
- Cartographic evidence
- Reactions by international organizations and other countries
- See also
- References
- Further reading
Imia () 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. 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.