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Article: Navies square up in 'flag war' over Aegean islets
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 31, 1996
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Grey frigates, sleek coastguard cutters and roaring warplanes
yesterday circled a small rocky outcrop in the Aegean Sea that an
increasingly strident Greece and Turkey were still each claiming as
its own.
More telling, perhaps, were the boatloads of journalists and
helicopters with camera crews, since this latest Greek-Turkish
crisis appears to be as much a product of media hysteria as any
insecure nationalist posturing by the new government in Greece or
the caretaker administration in Turkey.
After a freelance "war of the flags" last weekend between the
two countries asserting their sovereignty to the islets, known as
Imia in Greek and Kardak in Turkish, a new dimension was added on
Monday ...