Convention between Italy and Turkey, 1932
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The Convention between Italy and Turkey, signed in Ankara on January 4, 1932, by the Italian Plenipotentiary, Ambassador Pompeo Aloisi, and the turkish foreign minister Tevfik Rustu Bey, settled the dispute about the delimitation of the Territorial Waters between the coast of Anatolia and the island of Kastellórizo, which was an Italian possession since 1921. Because of this convention, all the islets of the archipelago around Kastellórizo, with the exception of Rho and Strongili, were attributed to Turkey.
Moreover, the Italian Government recognised the sovereignty of Turkey above the Aegean islet of Kara Ada (Greek: Arcos), situated in front of the town of Bodrum.
In an Appendix signed in December of the same year, the two Powers agreed to extend the convention delimiting the sea border between the Anatolian coast and the Italian Dodecanese. This was done by defining thirty five points which were equidistant between italian and turkish territory.
The Appendix was not deposited at the League of Nations in Geneva. Due to that, the Turkish Government, after the Imia/Kardak Crisis, refuses its validity, pretending that the sovereignty of the thousands of rocks, islets and cliffs of the Dodecanese is still undefined.
