George Karanikolas

[George Karanikolas @G__Karanikolas]

@GOKHANN199703 @PalmosPoli34042 Greece's 2015 declaration lets even the excluded disputes go to the ICJ by special agreement. That is the invitation. In 1976 Greece took Türkiye to the Court; Türkiye didn't appear. It hasn't accepted the Court's jurisdiction since 1972.

[George Karanikolas @G__Karanikolas]

@GOKHANN199703 @PalmosPoli34042 You said it yourself: where states disagree, the court decides. Greece accepts the ICJ; Türkiye doesn't. A ceiling of 12 or 200 miles is adjusted at The Hague, not by a memorandum two states sign without the third.

[George Karanikolas @G__Karanikolas]

@GalaOldBoyz @zgizemozpinar No court needs to rule. The MoU binds only its signatories, and Türkiye refuses the Court anyway. In Nicaragua, the Court drew the median from the islands, then adjusted it. The MoU skips that step. Annex 2 builds its line from Turkish and Libyan coasts only. Read the text.

[George Karanikolas @G__Karanikolas]

@GalaOldBoyz @zgizemozpinar Your case answers you: North Sea says equity never refashions nature, and erasing Crete does just that. Nicaragua v Colombia held Arts 74, 83 and 121 all customary i.e no equity without islands. Size was never the point. The point is a line drawn as if Greek islands didn't exist.

[George Karanikolas @G__Karanikolas]

@GalaOldBoyz @zgizemozpinar Türkiye voted against UNCLOS because of Art. 121. Now its defenders quote Arts. 74 and 83 from it. You can't take equity from the Convention and leave its islands behind. As for your case law, Serpents' Island is 0.17 km². Crete is 8,336. You're making my case.

[George Karanikolas @G__Karanikolas]

@ddkarakullukcu 3/3
Your Bonn source agrees with my first point: the MoU produces no legal consequences for third states. It also says the MoU denies Crete and Rhodes any shelf or EEZ, leaving them 12 miles. Adjusted? No. Erased. Your source, not mine.

[George Karanikolas @G__Karanikolas]

@ddkarakullukcu 2/3
Your exhibits make my case. Greece–Egypt lets its endpoints be extended once other neighbours come to the table. Türkiye–Libya excludes its boundary articles from amendment. One left the line open to third states. The other welded it shut and called it equity.

[George Karanikolas @G__Karanikolas]

@GalaOldBoyz @zgizemozpinar Greece needs no veto over paper binding only its signatories. Custom cuts both ways. Under Art. 121, islands generate zones like any land. Call it a dispute over their effect; then it's Greece's dispute too, not two states voting a third's islands out of the sea.

[George Karanikolas @G__Karanikolas]

@ddkarakullukcu @egotis10 3/3
And pacta tertiis cuts both ways: a concession Greece made to Egypt is a bargain with Cairo, not an admission to Ankara. Greece's rights east of the 28th meridian, and its right to 12 miles, remain fully reserved. If Turkey is confident in its case, The Hague is open.

[George Karanikolas @G__Karanikolas]

@ddkarakullukcu @egotis10 2/3
No symmetry either. Greece-Egypt stopped at the 28th meridian and expressly left the rest to consultation with neighbours. Turkey-Libya drew across waters where Greek islands generate entitlements. One agreement left room for third states; the other erased one.

[George Karanikolas @G__Karanikolas]

@gnomimou40 @aggeloschoriano Ο Δαίδαλος έφτιαξε τα φτερά. Ο Ίκαρος δεν διάβασε τις οδηγίες. Βλέπω ποιον ρόλο διάλεξες.

[George Karanikolas @G__Karanikolas]

@RenaDourou Η ψήφιση από τη Βουλή του Τομπρούκ δεν αλλάζει τίποτα νομικά. Μια διμερής συμφωνία δεν δεσμεύει τρίτα κράτη (pacta tertiis). Τα ελληνικά νησιά δεν διαγράφονται επειδή το ψήφισαν δύο κοινοβούλια. Άκυρο και ανυπόστατο το 2019, άκυρο και ανυπόστατο σήμερα.

[George Karanikolas @G__Karanikolas]

@HomerPavlos He even named his cases: Sybaris, Byzantium, Syracuse, Amphipolis. Each admitted settlers, each fell into civil strife (in Greek: "στάσις"). Aristotle wasn't prophesying. He was reporting.

[George Karanikolas @G__Karanikolas]

@TatsunokoCroi @FORTRESSMAXXING @CDMorlock By that logic, France isn't a republic today.

Macron, like every French President, is Co-Prince of Andorra, a sovereign country not subject to the French constitution.

A crown abroad doesn't define the regime at home. The constitution does.

[George Karanikolas @G__Karanikolas]

@FORTRESSMAXXING @TatsunokoCroi @CDMorlock A dictator rules above the law and clings to power.

Napoleon governed through a constitution and a Civil Code that made citizens equal before the law.
In 1815 the faubourgs begged to fight for him; he abdicated rather than start a civil war.

Autocrat, yes. Stalin, no.

[George Karanikolas @G__Karanikolas]

@TatsunokoCroi @FORTRESSMAXXING @CDMorlock Officially, he was exactly that. 1804 constitution: "The government of the Republic is entrusted to an Emperor."

Augustus claimed to restore the Republic. Poland's elected kings ruled a Rzeczpospolita. "Not a monarchy" is the modern meaning, not the literal one.

[George Karanikolas @G__Karanikolas]

@labradogz @Marxisafart @stenikito Συγκεκριμένα "καθάρισε" (ατυχέστατη επιλογή ρήματος) τους εχθρούς της Γαλλίας. Η λογική του ήταν ότι ο δισταγμός οδηγεί σε μεγαλύτερη αιματοχυσία από ό,τι η έγκαιρη χρήση καταιγιστικής (για την εποχή) ισχύος.