Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 25th of August 2021

Case name: 20210825-AEG810

Situation: 15 people forced into a Greek life raft, abandoned in Turkish waters and rescued by the Turkish Coastguard

Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded

Place of Incident: Aegean Sea

Summary of the Case:

In the morning of the 25th of August we were informed about a boat with 15 people that was pushed back from Greek to Turkish waters by Greek authorities. The people on the boat told us they were on a raft of the Greek Coastguard and wanted us to call the Turkish Coastguard immediately. One person had been hit on the head and was in a critical situation. At 09:18 CEST we called the Turkish Coastguard and gave them all the information. At 14:41 CEST the Turkish Coastguard confirmed they rescued 15 people in the position we gave them.

On the 3rd of September we received an additional testimony of one of the concerned people:

"I arrived on the island of Kalymnos and we had a pregnant female with us. When the coast guard arrested us, he asked who knows English? I told them I. He told me we will go now to the police station and do the stamp there. I said promise me he told me I promise, He says like this and said everyone gave me the mobile, I will return it. I did not give him my mobile. They stayed with me because I know he is lying. The same thing happened to me a month ago, where the Greek coast guard also took me near Rhodes and took the mobile and threw it into the sea and beat me and left me in the sea. But now they took us about a quarter of an hour in the coast guard boat and put the orange raft for us in the water and threw us like animals inside. I apologize for this expression, but this is the reality."

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