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Turkey persists with violations
The recent barrage of infringements continued on Tuesday with 91 airspace violations and 27 overflights by a total of 20 Turkish F-16 fighter jets, which even flew over inhabited islands including Leros in the southeastern Aegean.
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Kalymnos fisherman says his boat was rammed by Turkish port vessel
A fisherman from Kalymnos in the southeast Aegean has filed a complaint claiming that his boat was rammed off the coast of the nearby island of Kalolimnos by a Turkish port authority vessel.
The fishing boat is currently in Kalymnos where local port authorities are conducting an investigation.
Three killed, several missing as migrant boat sinks in Eastern Aegean
At least three people were killed and several are missing when a boat capsized in the early hours of Friday. The vessel was carrying illegal immigrants and refugees to Greece from Turkey.
The Greek coastguard that rushed to the scene discovered the body of one woman but two more bodies were recovered in Turkey’s territorial waters by the Turkish Coastguard a few hours later.
At least three dead after migrant boat sinks in the Aegean
At least three people have died and several people are said to be missing after a wooden boat carrying migrants sank near the Greek islet of Kalolimnos early Friday.
The Greek coast guard said that eight men, four women and one child were rescued. Up to 24 individuals had been traveling on the boat, one of the survivors said.
Turkish fighters violate Greek airspace flying over Imia
Two Turkish fighters violated Greek airspace flying over Kalolimnos while Greek Minister of Defence Panos Kammenos was also flying over Imia in order to commemorate the three heroes of the Navy who lost their lives 20 years ago during the Imia crisis.
Seven migrants including two children drown off Greece
Greek authorities say a total of seven bodies, including those of two children, have been recovered from the sea off the eastern Aegean island of Kos after a boat carrying migrants or refugees sank early Jan. 27.
Rescue crews recovered the bodies of three men, two women, a boy and a girl. There were two survivors - a man and a woman.
At least 15 migrants dead as boats sink off Greece
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.
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245 migrants rescued from deserted Aegean islands
Some 220 migrants, who were left on the deserted Greek island of Kalolimnos instead of the nearby island of Leros, have been rescued by Greek soldiers.
The migrants were left on Kalolimnos, a small island in the Dodecanese, by the human traffickers who told them that it was Leros.
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