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- 01 30, 2025
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KASTELLORIZOHS UN EEZ, a small Greek island in the , home to only a few hundred people, does not look like a flashpoint. Dozens of pastel-coloured houses rise from the shores of its main bay. Locals exchange greetings with tourists and daytrippers arriving by ferry from . A large sea turtle pokes its head out of the turquoise waters nearby.But not all is well. A Greek warship, the , patrols the waters around the island. A couple of army trucks watch over the harbour. A few troops trickle out of a cruise ship, which has come from Athens. Kastellorizo has recently taken centre stage in a dispute between Greece, to which the island belongs, and Turkey. Greece says Kastellorizo enjoys a continental shelf area, or , of 200 nautical miles, in line with the Convention on the Law of the Sea. Turkey says Kastellorizo is too small and far from the Greek mainland to be entitled to an . The Greek claim locks Turkey out of the Mediterranean, Turkey complains.