Coast Guard

The Greek government vowed to defend its sovereign rights following an incident early on Tuesday when a Turkish coast guard vessel rammed a Greek ship near the Aegean islets of Imia. "The Greek government has repeatedly said that it will...

A Turkish coast guard vessel rammed a Greek vessel near the islets of Imia in the early hours of Tuesday, according to Greek media. There are no reports of injuries to the crew of either boat. The Greek vessel suffered...

The Greek Coast Guard released a video of the operation of the coast guard intercepting a vessel south of Crete, suspected of transporting drugs. A coast guard speed boat can be seen approaching the vessel "Andreas", and the officers can be...

Two Turkish coast guard vessels pursued a Greek coast guard boat near the port of Mytilene, capital of Lesvos Island. According to Lesvos News, the Greek boat was in Greek territorial waters assisting an inflatable boat carrying asylum seekers that...

A preliminary examination of the seven-year-old Syrian child found dead in the sea in Skaramangas indicates that his death was caused by drowning, the Piraeus coroners' service said on Saturday. A full autopsy will be carried out on Monday. The...

A Turkish coast guard boat came within a 2 meter distance of the Imia islets on Tuesday as reported by Turkish news website Sozcu. The report claimed that a Greek ship “just stood there, a mile off.” This is...

Greek Coast Guard located 16 undocumented migrants early Tuesday on a beach on Samos island. The migrants and refugees had disembarked from a dinghy and told the authorities that a man that was among them fell into the water and...

Four of the 19 migrants located on Wednesday in a dinghy 15 miles east of the island of Thassos are dead, the doctor who examined them at the port of Kavala said. The search and rescue operation started on Tuesday...

The Greek Coast Guard located a boat with 29 migrants and refugees, among them two children, that floated adrift in the sea region west of the Ionian island of Lefkada. The captain, according to testimonies, is a member of a human smuggling...

The bodies of 21 migrants and refugees who were attempting to cross from Turkey to the Greek islands when their boat capsized due to the rainy weather conditions, washed up in the Aegean district of Ayvalık, Turkey on Tuesday, Greek media reports. The boat transporting migrants...