North Aegean islands

Four Turkish military aircraft entered Greek air space without permission on Monday, according to military officials in Athens.

Two of the jets, identified as F-16s, entered the Athens Flight Information Region (FIR) at 3 p.m. before flying over the tiny islet of Panaghia, east of the eastern Aegean island of Chios, at 8,800 feet.

Bozcaada, a beautiful island off the Aegean coast mentioned in both "The Iliad" and "The Aeneid," is getting ready to host cinephiles and environmentalists this week for the third Bozcaada International Festival of Ecological Documentary (BIFED), to be held between Oct. 12 and 16.

A total of 88 migrants and refugees arrived on Greece's Aegean island of Chios in the past 24 hours, authorities said Wednesday.

No arrivals were recorded on the islands of Lesvos and Samos.

Catamarans owned by the ferry company of Turkey's İzmir Metropolitan Municipality will start regular trips between the Alsancak Port and the Greek island of Lesbos in a bid to boost tourism in the Aegean Sea, Northern Aegean Islands Economic Development Agency (EOAEN) head Thrasos Kalogridis has said. 

The final exhibition of the season at Bozcaada Art Gallery, on the island of Bozcaada off Turkey's northwestern province of Çanakkale, is titled "A Meeting of Ceramics, Glass and Sculpture," and features the work of many local artists.

US Department of State avoids to condemn the violations of Turkey in the area of the Greek island of Oinousses.

A pair of Turkish F-16 fighters flew over the Greek island of Oinousses on Tueasday at 8:02 at 17,000 feet just a day after Turkey violated again the Greek airspace.

On Monday, two Turkish F-16 entered Athens FIR between the islands of Lesvos and Chios without submitting flight plan, while they also flew over the island of Oinousses.

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.

Limnos island has unique beauties and many sites to visit.

One of them is the unique chapel of Panagia Kakaviotissa. It is the only chapel in Greece and perhaps in the whole world that has no roof, but it is protected by a rock above it.

Morning ferries to Turkey's western islands of Gökçeada and Bozcaada off the coast of Çanakkale have been canceled on the day of the Nov. 1 snap elections due to bad weather. 

A strong northeastern storm on the northern coasts of the Aegean Sea have caused the suspension of ferry services from Çanakkale to its Gökçeada (Imbros) and Bozcaada (Tenedos) districts since Oct. 31.