A warship and two coast guard boats from Greece were intercepted by Turkey’s Coast Guard, upon approaching disputed islets in the Aegean on Wednesday.
The standoff between vessels from the two countries has lasted five hours, Dogan News Agency reported.
The two countries’ boats were 30 meters apart and ran parallel to each other off the coast of Bodrum’s Turgutreis neighborhood along the southern Aegean Coast, according to witnesses.
The report said Greek boats intended to head toward the disputed islets, known as Imia islets by Greece and Kardak islets by Turkey.
The islets are a pair of two small uninhabited rocks in the Aegean Sea, located between the Greek island chain of the Dodecanese and the southwestern mainland coast of Turkey.
Greece and Turkey nearly went to war over these islets in 1995.
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