Looking back at the Imia crisis and the legacy of US diplomacy

In January of 1996 Greece and Turkey came adjacent to struggle when the Imia situation erupted. The US played a captious relation successful preventing a subject escalation done Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, and the US ambassadors successful Athens and Ankara. Thomas Niles, the US ambassador successful Athens astatine the clip who passed distant this week, spoke openly astir the situation successful the years that followed, noting that the US had made a “big mistake” successful not taking a presumption connected Greek sovereignty successful the Aegean. Tom Ellis, the exertion successful main of Kathimerini’s English Edition, joins Thanos Davelis arsenic we look backmost astatine the Imia situation of 1996, the US relation successful preventing a subject confrontation, and its lasting bequest today.