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Nineteen Migrants Drown Off Turkish Coast

Coast guard teams launched search-and-rescue efforts for the packed boat that capsized off the Bademler area of Izmir’s Dikili district as it tried to reach nearby Greek islands.

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A helicopter, patrol boat and private vessels are still looking for the missing person.


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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said the number of migrants and refugees crossing illegally into Europe by sea and land in 2015 represented a fourfold rise on last year’s total. Almost 3,700 others died trying to cross the Mediterranean in Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War II.


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“The refugee issue is not a matter of political bribery”, a Turkish government official said, while adding that there was no other country as experienced as Turkey in meeting refugee demands.

Eighteen people, including six children, have drowned after a boat carrying asylum seekers sank off Turkey’s coast.

The accident occurred before dawn Wednesday off the small Aegean Sea island of Farmakonissi.

At least half a million refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war have travelled this year through Turkey, then by sea to Greek islands, their first stop in the European Union (EU).

An overcrowded boat has sunk off the coast of Turkey, killing at least 20 people trying to make their way to Europe.

Seven children were among the 13 reported drowned on Wednesday, and three children were among 11 who died on Tuesday. The Italian navy said its Cigala Fulgesi ship had recovered a man’s body.

With just days left in 2015, the Geneva-based group said 1,005,504 people had entered Europe as of Monday, more than four times as many as past year.

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Over the year the number of people crossing the Mediterranean increased steadily from around 5,500 in January to a monthly peak in October of over 221,000.

At least 820,000 refugees and economic migrants have reached Greece's eastern islands this year