IMBROS AND TENEDOS: A STUDY OF TURKISH ATTITUDES TOWARD TWO ETHNIC GREEK ISLAND COMMUNITIES SINCE 1923 By Alexis Alexandris Published in the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, Spring 1980, VII - No. 1, pages 5-31 ----- Introduction "Together with Thassos, Lemnos, and Samothrace, the islands of Imbros and Tenedos make up a geographical unit known as the Thracian Sporades at the northeastern corner of the Aegean Sea.  The most distinctive characteristic of these islands, however, is their proximity to the Straits of the Dardanelles.  Imbros is located only eleven nautical miles from the mouth of the Dardanelles, and Tenedos twelve.  The Thracian Sporades were annexed by the Ottoman Empire in 1455-1456 and, together with certain coastal districts, were directly administered by the Kaplan Pasha of the Ottoman imperial navy.  But it was only with the promulgation of the new Vilayet law in 1864 that the administrative status of the islands vis-a-vis ...