Greece complains to Turkey to the United Nations over a dispute over islands in the Aegean Sea

The Greek Broadcasting Corporation on Thursday quoted the Foreign Ministry as saying that the country intends to file a complaint with the United Nations over Turkey's violation of its sovereignty over a number of islands in the Aegean Sea.

Tensions have escalated between the two neighbors over the past weeks.

Turkish military planes fly over the inhabited Greek islands almost daily.

It should be noted that the two famous tourist islands of Rhodes and Samos are among these islands.

Turkey says that Greece has lost its rights with regard to a number of islands near the Turkish coast by militarizing these islands, in violation of the 1923 Lausanne and Paris Peace Treaties of 1947.

For its part, Greece replies that militarization is only a reaction to the presence of many landing strips along the western Turkish coast, and asserts that each country has the right to defend itself.

It should be noted that the dispute over the islands is only one of a group of disputes between the two countries, including the dispute over natural gas reserves in the Aegean.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently announced the suspension of contact with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and said that he "no longer exists" for him.

This came in response to Mitsotakis' call to the US Congress not to deliver combat aircraft to Turkey.

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