Access to Imbros and Tenedos impeded

Direct access to the islands of Imbros (or Gokceada in Turkish) and Tenedos (or Bozcaada) has been a perennial request of the natives of the two islands. Particularly on Imbros, the largest of the two, where, under the Lausanne Treaty, Ankara had a contractual obligation to safeguard rights and property (and certainly did so only piecemeal), there is a problem of access from Greece. Whether it is members of the Greek community of Imbros who have emigrated due to Turkish persecution in previous decades, or Greek visitors, access to the island is not possible directly from Greece. To get there people would have to fly to Istanbul or Alexandroupoli in northeastern Greece and from there by road to one of the two ports on the Gallipoli peninsula.