evidence: The events illustrated the extent to which "that ‘piece of rock’ was endowed with so much nationalist significance in the two states through representations of the other party as different" (Rumelili 2003, 232). The Imia/Kardak Islet remains a source of tension between Greece and Turkey as became clear in January 2021, when a collision of the two countries’ patrol boats in the immediate vicinity of the islet was responded by a rhetoric of harassment and violation of state sovereignty (Euronews 2021). The persistence of the conflicting claims over the Imia/Kardak Islet notwithstanding, a new vision is in operation within this territory—one that is centering migrants and their outgoing mobility to the EU. Since becoming active in 2018, the surveillance tower on the Çavuş Island has made possible the interception of hundreds of migrants both at sea and on the Turkish mainland.