evidence: The dispute began over Imia, a pair of uninhabited islets — "little" and "big" Imia — known in Turkey as Kardak. The islets are about 1,000 feet apart and have a combined surface area of about 10 acres. They are part of Greece but only a few miles from Turkey's Bodrum Peninsula. [...] Residents of a nearby Greek island raised their national flag on one of Imia's islets on January 25. On January 28, Turkish journalists arrived on Imia, taking down the Greek flag and raising their own. [...] In the end, American diplomacy succeeded in getting the two sides to withdraw and accept the "status quo ante" in which each claimed sovereignty over Imia. To this day, both still claim the islets.