Though modern Greece has been an independent state since 1830 or thereabouts, remnants of the Greek struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire abound. Most of them involve the status of islands in the eastern Aegean Sea. Those islands are recognized as Greek, and while Turkey nominally disputes a handful of them the real issue is that in many cas…
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