Ein Auszug aus dem the Guardian:
Sie haben keine Berechtigung Anhänge anzusehen. Anhänge sind ausgeblendet.
The tiny island of Kastellorizo, just 1.2 miles (2km) from the Turkish coast and 300 miles (500km) from the Greek mainland, is a Greek possession, but in the past century has been held by Turkey, Italy and Germany and been a British protectorate. Turkey is threatening to send ships off the island to explore for hydrocarbon reserves.
Those analysts pressing both sides to attempt arbitration, as have many countries in similar disputes, say that in practice the international court of justice in The Hague, which acts as an arbitration body,
may not endorse Greece’s maximalist position.
The effect to be accorded to islands has been one of the most controversial issues in the history of the law of maritime boundary definition.”
But he says case law shows factors including the size, status and location of an island and its distance from the mainland have to be taken into account.
It is unlikely, for instance, that arbitration would find Kastellorizo justified expanding the exclusive Greek economic zone from Rhodes another 80 miles (125km) further east, depriving Turkey of 400,000 sq km of water.