The Aegean Sea is located between the coasts of Greece and Turkey and the islands of Crete and Rhodes. Its covers an area of 210 square kilometers; its maximum depth is 3,543 meters, found to the east of Crete. More than two thousand islands of varying...

The Aegean Sea (pronounced /iːˈdʒiːən/, Greek: Αιγαίο Πέλαγος, Aigaío Pélagos; Turkish: Ege Denizi, Adalar Denizi) is a sea arm of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the...

Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis on Wednesday became the first Greek premier to pay an official visit to Turkey in nearly 50 years, reflecting warmer ties between two countries that have come close to war several times.Karamanlis and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, spoke of...

Accident investigators questioned boatsmen on the island of Santorini on Monday to determine whether the crew of a cruise ship that sank in the Aegean Sea delayed evacuating more than 1,500 people on board.Members of Santorini's boatsmen association played a key part in the April...

A rights group appealed Wednesday for the release of a Chinese activist sentenced to six years in prison after he was accused of posting subversive articles on the Internet.State media reported on Monday that Zhang Jianhong, the former editor in chief of a Chinese Web...

The owners, operator and captain of a cruise ship that hit the rocks off the island Santorini and sank were fined a total of $1.57 million Monday for polluting the Aegean Sea.The Sea Diamond leaked an estimated 300 tons of fuel into the sea since...