Most of the Islands in the Aegean Sea are part of what country?

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Anastasia

ALL the islands in the Aegean Sea are part of Greece.

The Greek islands of Imvros and Tenedos were ceded to Turkey by the Treaty of Lauzanne (1923). These islands had been liberated from Ottoman control in 1912 by the Greek Navy. Under Article 14 of the Lausanne treaty, Turkey assumed the legal responsibility of ruling these islands with a special self-governing status, which was to be exercised by local authorities. Under these provisions order would be kept by a police force recruited from the local Greek population that would also have the responsibility of overseeing the Greek educational system.

Turkey followed here its usual tactic of never abiding by its international obligations. Numbers speak for themselves.
In 1920 the islands of Imvros and Tenedos had a population of approximately 10,000 Greeks.
As a consequence of all these and other acts of commission or omission by the Government of the Turkish Republic, the Greek Imvrians and Tenedians were forced to desert their hearths, where their ancestors had lived for more than 3,000 years, and to scatter as refugees all over the world.
In 1960, according to the official census there were 5,487 Greeks and 289 Turks in Imvros. Today there are 300 Greeks and 7,900 Turks on that island. Less than 50 Greeks remain in Tenedos.

Therefore, the islands of Imvros and Tenedos are GREEK. Consequently , ALL the islands in the Aegean Sea are purely Greek.

ketilevedis

All the islands in Aegean are Greek.Yia sou.

anemia

I agree with Zoi. Historically every single Island in Aegean is G-R-E-E-K. Turkish have tried to prove us wrong ever since they lied eyes on Greece. Imvros and Tenedos are the ones that Turkey has since 1923 when the Greek leader Venizelos was forced to sign the capitulation. As for what the Turkish say, all I have to say is: No matter how hard you try, you'll never reach us..

Zoi ((Î–Ï‰Î®))

NATURALLY AND HISTORICALLY THEY BELONG TO GREECE, ALL OF THEM! Turkey has the islands of Imvros, Tenedos. But even those, had a purely Greek population and purely Greek and then Byzantine tradition. Why they aren't inhabited by Greeks...better don't ask.
THEONA IS REALLY FUNNY TRYING TO PROVE THE "UNPROVABLE".
I don't want to start any kind of discussion with the turkish guys, but exept Imvros and Tenedos, all the other aegean islands belong to Greece.

plostad

NATURALLY AND HISTORICALLY THEY BELONG TO TURKEY EXCEPT Thasos which belongs to Macedonia

sandman

Greece

Tomato Marouli

GREECE!!!!!

PFuller

Well, the map (link below) is from 1958, but things shouldn't have changed much. I thought more would be Turkish, but it doesn't appear that many are. First post seems to be right, that it's Greece.

GREEK BARBiiEâ™¥

G R E E C E

Myrina

Greece!
Anastasia, great answer!

Life is hopeless when you dream.

97% of them belong to Greece, they are very few tiny islands by the coast of Turkey that are Turkish also.

Teona

NATURALLY AND HISTORICALLY THEY BELONG TO TURKEY.

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