Coast Guard: Migrants’ Boat Capsizes Off Turkish Coast, 22 Drown
Twenty-two migrants drowned Monday when the boat carrying them capsized off Turkey’s Aegean coast in the Edremit area of the Balikesir province. They were trying to reach a Greek island, a Turkish coast guard official told Reuters.
Separately, the private Dogan news agency said 11 migrants died and three were rescued when another boat sank further south off the coast of Dikili in the province of Izmir.
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