Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 30th of March 2018Case name: 2018_03_30-AEG358
Situation: 30-35 travellers stuck at the Turkish-Greek land border, rescued by Turkish military.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case: On Friday the 30th of March, at 8.55pm, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a contact person to a group of between 30-35 travellers, with many children amongst them, stuck at the land border between Turkey and Greece, close to the Maritsa/ Evros River. We were not able to establish direct contact to the travellers, but at 9.37pm we called the international emergency service (112) who took our information, and told us that they would alert the Turkish emergency service to the distress of the travellers. Furthermore we sent an email to UNHCR in Turkey to inform them about the situation. At 11.51pm we reached the local Turkish police and passed on the information to them. They said that they would inform the military, who would be in charge of the search and rescue operation. When we later called the military at 01.25am, they told us that they could not carry out the operation in the dark, and that it would have to wait to the following morning at dawn. Throughout the night we stayed in contact with the travellers, who were stuck in the cold, without blankets, food or drinking water.
The following day we neither we, nor the contact person were able to reach the travellers anymore. Only at 9.35pm did we get a confirmation from the Turkish military, that the travellers had been found. We were not able to get a final confirmation from the travellers themselves.
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