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Imia

Imia/Kardak
Disputed islands
Other names: Limnia, İkizce, Heipethes
Kardak (Imia) Islets E-7218.jpg
Location of Imia/Kardak islets in Aegean Sea
Geography
Imia/Kardak is located in Greece
Imia/Kardak
Location Aegean Sea
Coordinates 37°03′03″N 27°09′04″E / 37.05083°N 27.15111°E / 37.05083; 27.15111Coordinates: 37°03′03″N 27°09′04″E / 37.05083°N 27.15111°E / 37.05083; 27.15111
Total islands 2
Area 40,000 m2 or 4.0 ha or 9.9 acres
Claimed by
Greece
Turkey
Demographics
Population 0
Border Protocol of 1932
Demarcation line
Imia delimitation 1932.svg
Geographical points
Turkish side
Point Name in text Modern name
A Mordala I.
B Kara Ada Kara Ada
C Guirejik I. Gürecik Adası
D Utchian I. Kargı Adası
E Arkialla Pt.
F Hussein Pt. Hüseyin Burnu
G Lodo Yassıada
H Atsaki Topan Adası / Zouka
I Kato I. Çavuş Adası
J Pondikusa Büyükkiremit Adası
K Sandama Peninsula İnce Burnu
L C. Monodendri Tekeağaç
Italian (later Greek) side
Point Name in text Modern name
A C. Phuka Ag. Fokas
B Luro Pt Akr. Psalidi
C Kum Pt. Akr. Ammoglossa
D C. Russa Akr. Roussa
E Vasiliki Pt. Vasiliki
F Karapsili Pt. Akr. Atsipas
G Kardak (Rks) Imia/Kardak
H Kalolimno Kalolimnos
I Agia Kiriaki Ag. Kiriaki
J Pharmako Farmakonisi
Source: Text of the 1932 treaty and border protocol, and modern maps of the area.

Imia (Greek: Ίμια) or Kardak is a pair of two small uninhabited islets in the Aegean Sea, situated between the Greek island chain of the Dodecanese and the southwestern mainland coast of Turkey. They lie 5.5 nautical miles (10.2 km; 6.3 mi) east of the Greek island Kalymnos, and 2.5 nmi (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) southeast of the nearest small Greek islet, Kalolimnos, and 3.8 nmi (7.0 km; 4.4 mi) west of the coast of the Turkish peninsula of Bodrum. Their total surface area is 10 acres (4.0 ha).

The islands are also referred to as Limnia (Λίμνια) in Greek, or İkizce in Turkish, or as Heipethes in some early-20th century maps.

Imia/Kardak was the object of a military crisis and subsequent dispute over sovereignty between Greece and Turkey in 1996. The Imia/Kardak 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/Kardak 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.

The European Union backed the Greek side on the Imia dispute, and warned EU-candidate country Turkey to refrain from any kind of threat or action directed against the sovereignty of EU member state Greece. Turkey was called upon to solve any border disputes with its neighbors through peaceful ways, in accordance with the United Nations Charter, and or by raising the matter at the International Court of Justice instead.


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