Aegean Sea

Turkish coast guards recovered the bodies of four refugees off the coast of the Aegean province of Mu?la late Nov. 19, Turkish Coast Guard Command sources said.

The walls of the temporary reception center at Galatsi in Athens are full of drawings by refugee children revealing their traumatic experience on paper.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words and children have chosen this way to tell about what they have been through and express their feelings.

At least 13 migrants, six of them children, have drowned as two boats making the hazardous crossing from Turkey capsized in the Aegean Sea off Greece on Nov. 1, the Turkish Coast Guard has said, adding to the three children and one woman who died off Turkey's Çanakkale. 

The first tragedy occurred off the island of Samos when a boat overturned just 20 meters from the shore.

Four migrants, including three children, have died after three dinghies that were mostly bringing Afghan migrants to Greece capsized off the Aegean coastal province of Çanakkale on Oct. 31. 

At least one person has died and two others are missing after a boat carrying refugees sank on Oct. 27 in the Aegean Sea, off the Turkish province of ?zmir.

The Turkish Coast Guard on Oct. 28 said 42 people were rescued from the sea soon after the incident off the resort town of Çe?me. It also said a search and rescue operation was underway to find two missing refugees. 

At least 12 migrants have drowned after a boat attempting to reach the Greek island of Lesbos sank in the Aegean Sea inside Turkish territorial waters on Oct. 17, Do?an News Agency reported, noting that 23 others were rescued.

Greece on Oct. 13 dismissed a suggestion it should set up joint patrols in the Aegean Sea with regional rival Turkey, as Europe struggles to control its worst migrant crisis since World War II.

He stood on the mud, crows cawing overhead, pointing at unmarked graves. "Here's a mother with her baby. And here's another young woman. Over there, that's a 60-year-old man." 

Buried beneath low mounds of earth, facing Mecca, lay Afghan, Iraqi and Syrian refugees who drowned this summer in the Aegean Sea trying to reach Europe in flimsy inflatable boats. 

According to Turkish news agency Anadolu, a 4-year old Syrian girl was found dead off the coast of western Turkey near the area of Cesme, opposite the Greek island of Chios. Turkish coast guards managed to rescue 14 Syrian refugees, 8 of which were children, when the boat they were in sank in the Aegean as they were attempting to enter Greece.

Turkish Coast Guard teams have rescued more than 150 migrants on the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean as they were apparently trying to reach Europe, which is attempting to cope with refugees arriving en masse.