Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 1st of July 2020Case name: 2020_07_01-AEG684
Situation: 17 travelers stranded on land in Turkey - found and picked up by Turkish forces.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case: At 23:00h of Wednesday the 1st of July the Alarm Phone was alerted to 13 travellers in distress, including 3 children and 4 women. The group was stuck on land in Turkey and asked us to call the police. At 23:52h our shift team called the Police in Marmaris, however as no one spoke English we had difficulties passing on the information. A few minutes later we called the Turkish coastguard and sent them the information we had via email. The following morning, at 07:15h we received confirmation from the Turkish coastguard that they had found and picked up the travellers, which were finally 17.
Last update: 18:31 Oct 28, 2020
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