Turkey is the only country that refers to and demands the demilitarisation of the eastern Aegean islands and questions Greek sovereignty over them.

With regard to the militarisation of the islands in the Eastern Aegean, various international agreements apply. In particular:

• the status of the islands of Limnos and Samothrace was governed by the 1923 Lausanne Treaty on the Straits, but was been replaced by the 1936 Montreux Treaty;

• the status of the islands of Lesvos, Chios, Samos and Ikaria, is governed by the 1923 Lausanne Peace Treaty; and

• the status of the Dodecanese islands is governed by the 1947 Paris Peace Treaty.

It is already extensively outlined here why Greece does not have to demilitarise its islands despite Turkish demands, especially now that it has been exposed that they have plans for their invasion.

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