NATO HOLDS EMERGENCY MEETING ON AEGEAN CRISIS NATO ambassadors met in emergency session today to discuss tension between members Greece and Turkey over a disputed area of the Aegean Sea on the Western Alliance's southern flank, Greek diplomatic sources said. They said no information had yet emerged from the meeting, called after statements from both countries that they were prepared to back rival oil exploration teams with warships. General Guven Ergenc, Secretary General of the Turkish General Staff, said today the Turkish research ship Sismik 1, escorted by an unspecified number of warships, would sail into disputed waters in the Aegean Sea tomorrow morning. Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou said "The military readiness of our country is able now to give a very hard lesson if our neighbours (Turkey) were to carry out military actions." The row erupted when the Greek government said last month that it was taking control of a Canadian-led consortium which was already producing oil off the Greek island of Thassos and would drill in the same area after the takeover.