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Although, war was averted when the Greek military regime fell from power, the damage to Turkish-Greek relations was done and the occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkey would be a sticking point in Greco-Turkish relations for decades to come (Ottoman pp). Another complication arose in the 1970's when oil was discovered in the Aegean Sea (Ottoman pp). The Balkan Wars of 1913 had given Greece all the Aegean Islands except Gokceada and Bozcaada, some of them only a few miles off the Turkish coast (Ottoman pp). Turkey maintained that the Greek-Turkish maritime border had never been properly defined and so claimed that the seabed resources should be shared by both countries, while Greece insisted that the entire Aegean belonged to the Greeks (Ottoman pp).

In recent years relations between Greece and Turkey have improved considerably, however, the issue of Cyprus has remained unresolved and a constant source of potential conflict (Ottoman pp). In May 2004, Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan became the first Turkish prime minister to visit Greece for 16 years and the first to visit the ethnic Turkish minority in Thrace for 52 years (Ottoman pp).

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He called upon the Thracian Turks to preserve their heritage while still maintaining loyalty to their Greek citizenship (Ottoman pp). Although this visit was largely symbolic, it did lead to a declaration by Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis that Greece would support Turkey's longstanding bid to enter the European Union (Ottoman pp).

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