For the past three years, tension and animosity have returned to being routine in everyday relations between Turkey and Greece. The agenda has been packed with more issues of disagreement and has rendered what traditionally has been the core of Turkish-Greek contention, e.g., the delimitation of the Aegean continental shelf, to an almost nostalgic past.
In general, to all those familiar with the Eastern Mediterranean state of affairs, the Greek-Turkish dispute has been a significant source of instability and a major concern for Greece’s and Turkey’s NATO allies and European partners.
