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Saros Islands (also called ''Üçadalar'' or ''Eşek Islands'') are three small Aegean islands in the Gulf of Saros ,
Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...
. At they are administratively a part of
Gelibolu Gelibolu, also known as Gallipoli (from el, Καλλίπολις, ''Kallipolis'', "Beautiful City"), is the name of a town and a district in Çanakkale Province of the Marmara Region, located in Eastern Thrace in the European part of Turkey on t ...
ilçe The 81 provinces of Turkey are divided into 973 districts (''ilçeler''; sing. ''ilçe''). In the early Turkish Republic and in the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding unit was the ''kaza''. Most provinces bear the same name as their respectiv ...
(district) of
Çanakkale Province Çanakkale Province ( tr, ) is a province of Turkey, located in the northwestern part of the country. It takes its name from the city of Çanakkale. Like Istanbul, Çanakkale province has a European (Thrace) and an Asian (Anatolia) part. The E ...
. The biggest of the three is ''Kaşık Island'' (also called ''Hedef'' or ''Yunus Island'') at the west. The middle one is ''Ortanca'' (also called ''Defne Island'' ) and the smallest one to the east is ''Böcek Island''.Musfa Bozgeyik's page
/ref> The islands are uninhabited and they are controlled by the navy.


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Aegean islands Islands of Turkey Islands of Çanakkale Province Gelibolu District {{Çanakkale-geo-stub