Farmakonisi

Turkey continued its provocations towards Greece over the Aegean Sea, Wednesday with 7 airplanes violating Greek airspace a total of 25 times. Four armed F-16 fighter jets flew over the island of Farmakonisi off the west coast of Turkey, while they infringed the Athens FIR 7 times.

A pair of Turkish fighter jets violated Greek air space above the island of Farmakonisi on Wednesday.

The two F16s entered the Athens Flight Information Region at 1.18 p.m and flew over Farmakonisi at an altitude of 26,000 feet.

Forty-eight migrants and refugees were rescued on Friday off the coast of the Farmakonisi islet in the eastern Aegean.

The migrants were crammed in an inflatable rubber dingy which started taking in water before the coast guard picked them up out of the sea.

All 48 were transferred to the nearby island of Leros.

At least 15 people including six children have died after their boats sank off the Greek islands of Farmakonisi and Kalolimnos early Jan. 22, with dozens of other migrants reported missing, the coastguard said.

A new migrant tragedy took place east of the small Greek Aegean island of Farmakonisi at dawn on Friday. Seven migrants, including six small children, lost their lives in the tragedy.

Greek Coast Guards confirmed that a wooden dinghy carrying migrants crashed into rocks resulting in one woman and six children meeting a tragic death.

At least 13 people including seven children, drowned when their overloaded boat capsized in the Aegean, police said Dec. 23, the latest tragedy involving migrants seeking a better life in Europe.

The small boat went down off the Greek island of Farmakonisi overnight, sending 29 people into the water, an official with the Greek port police told AFP.

Eight migrants - five of them children - drowned in two separate boat accidents off Turkey's Aegean coast early Dec. 18.

Four Iraqi migrants, including two children, drowned after a Greece-bound boat capsized off the Turkish resort town of Bodrum early Dec. 18.

A total of 13 migrants, including seven children, were killed early on Dec. 9 after two separate boats capsized off Turkey's Aegean coast. The incidents come amid a new spate of deaths in the sea dividing Turkey and Greece, as the wave of migrants trying to reach Europe continues into the winter.

A total of 12 migrants were killed early on Dec. 9 in the capsizing of two separate boats off Turkey's Aegean coast, as the wave of migrants trying to reach Europe continues into the winter.

Twelve dead bodies were pulled from the sea in northeast Aegean, off the coast of the island of Farmakonisi, after their wooden dinghy capsized shortly after midnight. It is believed that there were 50 migrants on board the vessel, risking the unsafe journey to Europe. Among the dead are reportedly six children, four men and two women. A search is now on to find the other missing people.