Coast guard

Police are questioning a Coast Guard officer over a live hand grenade found outside the entrance to a residential complex in the southern suburb of Glyfada.

Kathimerini understands that a female coast guard officer, who lives in the complex, has testified to the police's Extortion Division, alleging the man's involvement in the incident.

Three people have lost their lives and three others injured due to the sinking of a foreign-flagged commercial ship off the coast of the southern province of Antalya.

The sinking of the ship happened off the coast of Kumluca district around 3:47 a.m.

The Greek Coast Guard says it stopped two speedboats carrying a total of 37 migrants off the island of Kos and arrested three alleged traffickers Thursday night.

Both boats ignored warnings to stop and tried to ram Coast Guard patrol vessels, authorities said. They were stopped with shots fired on their outboard motors.

Deploying a practice from the distant past in recent months, as can be seen from the analysis of the data, Turkish authorities are testing the waters regarding the possibility of closing the bays of the Turkish coast and the islets belonging to Turkey to extend Ankara's waters and promote its maximalist positions.

A fresh incident unfolded in the Aegean on Thursday morning with the harassment of a Greek coast guard vessel by a Turkish patrol boat, with Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar presenting his version of events, claiming the Greek side "harassed and shot at our fishermen."

Greeks threw rope at the ship's screw to stop us and then fired more than 30 times, the official in charge of the Turkish ship attacked by Greek officers has said.

Two Greek coastguard boats fired harassment fire on the Comoros-flagged Ro-Ro ship "Anatolian," which was sailing in international waters off the Bozcaada district of Çanakkale, the Turkish Coast Guard Command said on Sept. 10

The construction of the 295-kilometers wall along the border of Turkey and Iran will be finished by 2023, the country's interior minister has said.

After inspecting the borderline from a helicopter, Soylu spoke at a press conference held at one of the border posts on April 24.

Greek Kathimerini reports that the passengers have been evacuated and are already in lifeboats, and for now there is no information on whether anyone was injured.
The Coast Guard stated that there were 237 passengers and 51 crew members on board.

Greek forces continue to push irregular migrants, including women and children, into Turkish territorial waters in the Aegean Sea.

The Turkish Defense Ministry shared a video of Greek Coast Guards pointing guns at refugees, battering and pushing them into Turkish territorial waters.