1. There Greece and Turkey are locked in a tangle of sovereignty disputes over sea lanes, air rights and barren islets. 2. Pangalos and Arsenis said Greek troops on Imia, a two-rock barren islet just off the Turkish coast, would be the last to leave. 3. But not all went smoothly with the withdrawal of Greek troops from Imia, a two-rock barren islet just off the Turkish coast. 4. Claims on a barren islet almost led to war last January when the Greek and Turkish navies came face to face. 5. Greece and Turkey nearly went to war in late January after Turkey laid claim to a barren islet in the eastern Aegean Sea that Athens says belongs to Greece. 6. He pointed to a crisis last January that led the two countries to the brink of war over a cluster of barren rocky islets near the Turkish coast. 7. It rekindled an age-old territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea over a set of barren rocky islets. 8. South Korea is planning to build a lighthouse on a barren islet also claimed by Japan, the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry said Thursday. 9. Tension between the two NATO allies has been raised since late January, when U.S. mediation prevented a clash over a barren islet in the eastern Aegean Sea. 10. Tension has been high between the two NATO allies since late January, when U.S. mediation prevented a clash over a barren islet in the eastern Aegean Sea. |