What Greek island is closest to Turkey?

Samos
Samos is a Greek island closer to Turkey (70km from Izmir) than to the mainland of Greece.

Does Turkey share a border with Greece?

The river Evros forms the land border between Greece and Turkey. The waters of this river and its tributaries have made the Evros region one of the most fertile in Greece.

Are ferries operating between Greece and Turkey?

There are no direct ferries between Athens and Turkey (including Istanbul). You must travel to one of the islands near the Turkish coast, then transfer to a Greek island—Turkish coast ferry.

How long does it take to sail from Turkey to Greece?

The distance between the Greek islands of the Dodecanese and the North Aegean with the Turkish coast is short so the ferry trip can be from 20 minutes to 2 hours 30 minutes, depending on the port of departure and the port of arrival as well as the ferry that you travel with.

Why does Turkey want to occupy the Greek islands?

Although Turkey knows that the islands are legally and historically Greek, Turkish authorities want to occupy and Turkify them, presumably to further the campaign of annihilating the Greeks, as they did in Anatolia from 1914 to 1923 and after. Any attack against Greece should be treated as an attack against the West.

Is it bad to claim a Greek island as a Turkish island?

Claiming a Greek island that a 2 or 5\% of it’s population is Turks and then getting them is foreign occupation, and in today’s world it’s considered a very bad thing regardless of the countries involved. Even if the population is more than 50\% (kind of like Crimea) again, it’s really bad.

What is the conflict between Turkey and Greece about?

Greek territorial waters are set at the 6-mile boundary only because of Turkey’s casus belli. The conflict over military flight activities has led to a practice of continuous tactical military provocations, with Turkish aircraft flying in the outer 4-mile zone of contentious airspace and Greek aircraft intercepting them.

What is Turkey’s claim to the eastern Mediterranean Sea?

On 13 November 2019, Turkey submitted to the United Nations a series of claims to Exclusive Economic Zones in the Eastern Mediterranean that are in conflict with Greek claims to the same areas – including a sea zone extending west of the southeastern Aegean island of Rhodes and south of Crete.