But he's spending a lot of time in Turkey these days--150 in the last year--and he's not there just enjoying the Aegean coast.

FORBES: Magazine Article

It has frayed recently over Turkey's reluctance to stop large numbers of Central Asian and Middle Eastern migrants crossing from its Aegean coast to the Greek islands despite the EU's Frontex team of helicopters and patrol boats keeping watch on illegal immigration.

ECONOMIST: Greece's budget crisis

Thassos is in the northern Aegean Sea, near the coast of Thrace.

BBC: Greek villagers block Golden Dawn food handout on Thassos

Despite a telephone call from Madeleine Albright, America's secretary of state, to offer her services, no progress was made on the nagging issue of how to handle the Greek-Turkish quarrels over ownership of uninhabited islands close to the Turkish coast and oil rights under the Aegean.

ECONOMIST: Greece and Turkey

The reported Mediterranean tsunamis mainly occurred in the most seismic and volcanically active regions like the Aegean, Ionian and Tyrrhenian seas, the sea of Marmara, along the Algerian coast and Cyprus.

UNESCO: EDUCATION