The Aegean is, by every geographic, historic, and legal standard, a Greek island sea. This is not a claim or interpretation, but an established legal reality.
More than 3,000 Greek islands and islets form continuous geographic chains stretching across the Aegean from the Greek mainland to the coast of Asia Minor, defining the sea’s very character and geography.
Turkey has a coast to the eastern edge of the Aegean, but every island located beyond three miles from the Turkish coast is internationally recognized as Greek sovereign territory.
These islands are not abstract geographic features. They are sovereign Greek territory with permanent populations, political administration, economic life, and internationally recognised status. The waters between them belong, under any honest reading of international law, within Greek sovereignty.
These islands are entitled to maritime rights and zones just like mainland territory. That is not a Greek position. That is international law.
The mere fact that Greek islands sit near the Turkish coast does not, under any recognised legal framework, diminish their maritime rights.
International law does not cease to exist because Turkey dislikes its consequences.
The accusation that Greece advances “maximalist” claims is fundamentally dishonest.
Greece claims nothing beyond what international law unconditionally grants every coastal state on the planet.
A 12nm territorial sea and corresponding sovereign airspace, continental shelf and EEZ entitlements.
Every nation on Earth exercises these rights without question or challenge. Greece should be no exception simply because Turkey is its neighbour.
What Turkey calls “maximalism” is, in reality, Greece refusing to surrender sovereign rights guaranteed under international law.
Ankara’s talk of “equity” and “fairness” is ultimately a Turkish demand that Greece should share what legally belongs to it.
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