ANKARA The Turkish caretaker Prime Minister, Ms Tansu Ciller, yesterday ordered her foreign minister to protest to Greece in their latest dispute, a row over sovereignty of a tiny rock island in the Aegean Sea, called Imia in Greek, Kardak in Turkish.
Greece says the uninhabited island belongs to it under two treaties an accord in 1923 and a 1947 Paris agreement in which Italy ceded the island to Greece. But Turkish foreign ministry spokesman, Mr Omer Akbel, told a briefing for foreign journalists "Turkey believes that under international law, Kardak rocks belong to Turkey."
