(ANSA) - BELGRADE, AUG 18 - Turkey has designated two areas in the Aegean Sea and Mediterranean near the Turkish coast and Greek islands as "national marine parks," prompting a response from Athens. According to a decree signed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, one of the parks covers 1,700 square kilometres of Mediterranean waters between Fethiye and Kas, towns in southwest Turkey, and around Kastellorizo, Greece's easternmost island in the Mediterranean, a few nautical miles off the Turkish coast. The second marine park is in the northern Aegean Sea and covers an area of over 21,000 square kilometres near the Dardanelles Strait and between the Greek islands of Lemnos and Samothrace. (ANSA).