Aegean Sea

Turkey's blue cruise lists include some of the most pristine bays in the world. These areas promise summer visitors a relaxing vacation with natural beauty and laid back atmospheres. 

Here is a list of the top 10 bays in Turkey to stop and enjoy the sea.

The “tsikalariá” of Sifnos

Inspired by the dazzling Cycladic sunshine and endowed with fine argil deposits, loads of water and strong winds, the potters of Sifnos have been crafting ceramics since the Protocycladic era.

While most attention over the past few years has been centred on Russia’s aggression and the critical situation in the Middle East, very few analysts notice a security emergency on the EU’s south-eastern border.

Turkey gone to a new level of provocations towards Greece, after a Greek aircraft carrying the President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, was prompted to divert from its flight path as Turkish authorities claimed it was in Turkish airspace Wednesday morning.

Over 100 illegal immigrants and refugees landed in Greece in the past 2 days. The 108 refugees and immigrants landed in the islands of the northern Aegean Sea, with 61 reaching Lesvos and 47 arriving in Samos. According to figures by the Greek police headquarters in the Northern Aegean, a total of 9,914 people have applied for asylum, with Lesvos hosting the largest part (4,310).

The second largest island of the Dodecanese has no equal. It holds its past close: in its ancient acropolis, caves, churches and even its traditional dress. The setting is more than dramatic: stunning vistas from untouched, mountain-clinging villages that keep vigilant watch over the Aegean, despite being hammered by ferocious winds.

Nisyros is not your typical Greek island. This small land mass in the Aegean is also an active volcano. It is the youngest along a rift in the Southern Aegean and has experienced at least three major eruptions in the past 45,000 years. One of these, around 16,000 years ago, was particularly destructive, blanketing a wide area with volcanic ash.

The scene when you sail into the port of the Saronic holiday island of Aegina is one of incredible cleanliness and neatness as a municipal street cleaner carefully picks up every piece of trash, every cigarette butt, however hard to spot.

A probe was launched Wednesday into a collision between a fishing boat and a water tanker vessel off the Saronic island of Aegina earlier in the day that left two brothers dead.

A collision between a fishing boat and a water tanker vessel off the Saronic Gulf island of Aegina near the Greek capital on Wednesday left two people dead, reports said.

The bodies of the two victims, which early reports say they were brothers, were reportedly recovered by the crew of the tanker, while the fishing vessel, "Panayiotis," sank after the collision.