Black Gold, 1985

This fictional scenario takes the 1987 "Sismik Incident" a step further by establishing active Turkish oil platforms in the Aegean Sea, setting up for a defenative armed conflict between the two countries. Background Turkish and Greek tensions have run high once again in the Aegean Sea. Early this year, Turkish geologists had discovered an oil field south of the Greek island of Agios Efstratios and those wells had come online over the last 48 hours. Athens has claimed that the oil fields are well within their territorial waters as determined by the International Law of the Sea and any rigs that begin drilling operations will be destroyed. Greece has deployed several warships to the region and have readied several airwings at Athens. Turkey, severly underequiped, is struggling to muster a response to protect the billions of dollars of oil platforms.