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The Aegean dispute over national airspace has arisen because Greeceās airspace is ten nautical miles instead of six, which is its range of territorial sea.
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As acknowledged by ambassador KĆ¢muran GĆ¼rĆ¼n, who adds that in the 1930s, Turkish planes refrained from entering the ten miles of airspace. See KĆ¢muran GĆ¼rĆ¼n (1994), BĆ¼kres-Paris-Atina: BuyukelƧilik AnĪ¹larĪ¹ [Buchurest-Paris-Athens: The Memoirs of an Ambassador] (Istanbul: Milliyet), p. 356.
According to four senior former Greek ambassadors. See Byron Theodoropoulos, Efsathios Lagakos, George Papoulias and Ioannis Tzounis (1995), Skepseis kai provlimatismoi gia tin exoteriki mas politiki [Thoughts and Reflections on our Foreign Policy] (Athens: I. Sideris), p. 67.
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Heraclides, A. (2010). National Airspace. In: The Greek-Turkish Conflict in the Aegean. New Perspectives on South-East Europe Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230283398_13
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