Farmakonisi

In January 2014, a small boat that was transporting illegal migrants in Greek waters went under during a Greek Coast Guard operation near the Aegean islet of Farmakonisi. During the controversial operation, 11 Afghan immigrants lost their lives. On Thursday,...

The Hellenic Coast Guard announced earlier today it had recovered the bodies of a man and a young boy around 10 years old, part of a group of over 30 people onboard a vessel that was capsized as it was...

On Tuesday morning, June 10, the Greek Coast Guard collected 17 immigrants from the sea, in the northeast of Farmakonisi. The immigrants had no legal documents in their possession. The immigrants jumped in the water after their boat flooded and...

The Greek Coast Guard rescued 30 irregular migrants off the coast of Farmakonisi in the southern Aegean on Monday, according to ANA-MPA. The immigrants had reportedly punctured the inflatable boat they were traveling on and jumped into the sea at...

The recent incident that took place off the coast of the Greek island of Farmakonisi and led to the tragic death of illegal immigrants, seems to have triggered talks in the European Parliament, with MEP’s demanding an explanation from...

A large number of  immigrants exceeding 10,000 are crammed into warehouses in the surrounding area of Bodrum, Turkey, waiting for an opportunity to enter Greece. Greece is under intense pressure trying to protect its sea borders, as tackling illegal immigration...

A few days after the tragedy on the island of Farmakonisi, eastern Greece, that left the Greek and international community shocked, the Deutsche Welle presented a video that reveals the maltreatment of immigrants  by Greek coast guard officers and the...

Greek police authorities have detained dozens of people for trying to occupy the office of the Greek Marine Minister, Miltiadis Varvitsiotis, during protests about the sinking of a boat carrying migrants from Turkey to Greece which resulted in the...

The director of the Greek Port Operations Centre Nikolaos Patrinos, described the unfortunate circumstances during the rescue operation of immigrants which led to tragedy in Farmakonisi, Greece. Officials presented the events of the operations frame by frame, insisting that the...

New evidence comes to light in the tragic incident last Monday involving a boat transporting illegal immigrants in the eastern Aegean Sea and the Greek coast guard, which led to the death of 12 immigrants. The statements given by...