Via The New Arab – Turkish coastguard are searching for ten migrants lost at sea after their boat sank in the Aegean Sea, according to the country’s state-run news agency.
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Two children died after migrant boat sinks off western Turkey -reports
Via Ahval News – At least two children have drowned, and several others are missing, after a boat carrying migrants sank just 50 metres off Turkey’s western coast near the resort of Bodrum early on Monday, Turkish news site HaberTürk reported .
Nineteen people on the boat were rescued, and three made it ashore by themselves, HaberTürk quoted coast guards as saying.
Migrant with child swim ring saved by tourist boat amid desperate bid to cross from Turkey to Greece
Via Hurriyet Daily News – A group of tourists off the southwestern Turkish province of Muğla were surprised to see an exhausted migrant in the sea, who was attempting to cross from Turkey to Greece with a child swim ring.
Turkey migrants: Lorry crash in Izmir ‘kills 22’
Via BBC – At least 22 people, including a number of children, were killed in Turkey when a lorry carrying migrants plunged off a road, state media say.
The lorry crashed through a barrier and landed in an irrigation canal 20m (65ft) below, in the western province of Izmir.
The nationality of the victims was not immediately known.
A day earlier, 11 people thought to be migrants died when their car burst into flames after a crash in Greece.
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Conditions at Moria are “shameful”
Via Danish Refugee Council – 19 NGOs decry conditions at the site, now worse than ever, and call for sustainable solutions to both decongest the islands and improve conditions across first receptions centres in North Aegean Sea.
Deportation Monitoring Aegean and Legal Centre Lesbos Publish Joint Report
STOP DEPORTATIONS TO TURKEY
People trapped on the Greek Islands are deprived of basic rights
Via Deportation Monitoring Aegean and Legal Centre Lesbos – Since the EU-Turkey Statement, more and more people seeking protection in Europe are deported directly from the Greek Islands to Turkey. According to the European Commission, at least 2,224 people have been deported to Turkey since the implementation of the EU-Turkey deal on 20th of March 2016.
This article was originally published by Deportation Monitoring Aegean, Legal Centre Lesbos.
Germany and Greece seal migrant return deal
Via DW (17.08) – The German Interior Ministry has announced it has reached a deal that will allow it to return asylum-seekers to Greece. Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spain’s Pedro Sanchez agreed to a similar compromise last week.
Italian Minister Accuses Turkey of Not Fulfilling Migrant Deal Despite EU Money
Via Sputnik (23.07.18) – Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Monday that Turkey was not fulfilling its agreement with the European Union to help curb migration to Europe, despite Ankara having received financial aid that was promised under the deal, pointing out that 1,200 migrants had arrived to Italy from Turkey since the beginning of 2018.
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New migrant route involves sailboats from Turkey
Via Infomigrants – A new migrant route from Turkey has been opened up by human traffickers – particularly Ukrainian and Russian – to transport migrants to Europe, mainly through Italy. In recent weeks, the smugglers have used sailboats and landed on the beaches of Sicily at night. Continue reading New migrant route involves sailboats from Turkey
9 die as migrant boat sinks off Turkey’s Aegean coast
Via Hurriyet Daily News / Anadolu Agency – Nine people died early on Aug. 9 when a boat carrying 13 migrants sank off the western coast of Turkey, the Turkish coast guard said. Four people were rescued.
The boat sank off the coast of Aydın province, near Kuşadası, a popular tourist destination, it said. Kuşadası district governor Muammer Aksoy said seven children and two women were identified as casualties with no one missing.
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