We heard that too. The Turks talking about «illegal occupation» of Antikythera, where the Greece has installed a mayor and built a port, not allowing the Turkish Interior Ministry to appoint a «state administrator» to manage it.
This is only part of what he outrageously states in the online version of «Sözcü Gazetesi», the former Secretary General of the Turkish Ministry of Defence, Umit Yalim.
In the article, - in which 3/4 of Crete, as well as 14 nearby islands and rocky islets (including the Antikythera and the Gavdos) are depicted with the Turkish flag, there is mention of an island (he refers to Antikythera, which he calls «Küçük Çuha»), which belongs to Turkey since the 19th century and which the Greeks occupied, settled and installed a mayor in it.
Of course, this gentleman forgets to mention that Antikythera (along with Kythera), was incorporated into Greece as part of the United State of the Ionian Islands, under British guardianship, on 21 May 1864, without the then Ottoman Empire retaining any claim to their status.
Yalim talks about the method of colonization that Greece followed on the island (!), comparing it with the one the Israelis applied in the occupied Palestinian territories. He is even surprised that the Turkish Interior Minister has not yet replaced the «illegal» Greek mayor, Efstratios Harhalakis, with Turkish administrator.
Yalim refers to a total of 19 «Turkish islands» and 2 «Turkish islets» between the Peloponnese and Crete, which Greece occupied, turning the «sea of islands» (as the Turks insist on calling the Aegean Sea) into a «Greek lake».
