Volume 22, October, 1976 Greece, Turkey, Page 27987
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Oct 1976 - Confrontation over Continental Shelf Rights in Aegean Sea - Decisions of UN security Council and International Court of Justice
A military confrontation arose during the months of July and August 1976 between Greece and Turkey as a result of Turkish geological exploration for oil carried out in areas of the Aegean Sea in which Greece claimed the sole right to resources of the continental shelf of its islands. This claim was disputed by the Government of Turkey.
There were a number of areas of conflict between the two countries[see also 26667 A; 27011 A], and they were differently defined by the two sides in May 1975.
In a statement issued by the Greek Press and Information Office in London on May 19 the matters in dispute were listed as:
(1)Rights to the continental shelf in terms of the 1958 Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf, ratified by Greece, but not by Turkey, whereby, in the Greek view, the Greek islands off the Turkish coast had their own rights to the seabed and subsoil " to ...

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