@article{2017,title={The Main Issue in the Aegean Sea: (Un)Forgotten Turkish Islands},abstractNode={The main purpose of this paper is to examine the Turkish Aegean Islands, whose sovereignities had not been ceded to Greece via international treaties. In this frame, firstly as a new notion “Blue Country” idea will be defined in general, then the significance of the Aegean Sea and its importance in usage for Turkey as well as other regional states will be outlined. Later on, the notion of “Lausanne Balance” will be examined, and then the judiciary basis of the “Gray Zones” conflict which had developed out of of Kardak Rocks crisis will be reviewed. At last, a final evaluation regarding the main issue will try to put an end at the paper. This research intends to explore why the issue of islands whose sovereignities are unidentified is the main core of the Aegean conflicts; what the Lausanne Balance in the Aegean means as well as why the Aegean Sea and its usage is important for turkey and other riparian states rather than investigating juridical dimension of the issue in-depth and far from comparative analysis with comparable examples in the world. Therefore, this study wishes to invite readers to participate in the survey with unanswered legal questions that need further investigation. The legal dimension of the problem related to the argument of the parties need to work together to offer the opinion of place, both because of lack of work would exceed the target of the legal dimension of the subject, because the international marine legal experts by until today and is thought to be the subject of other studies in the future.},author={Mete Kaan KAYNAR-& Gökhan AK},year={2017},journal={Journal of Academic Value Studies (JAVStudies)}}