Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 23th of May 2022Case name: 2022_05_23-AEG902
Situation: Around 95 travellers on their way to Italy, pushed back by the Greek Coastguard and rescued by the Turkish Coastguard.
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case: On Monday the 23rd of May 2022, the Alarm Phone shift team was alerted by a relative to a group of around 95 travellers, including many women and children, in distress in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The travellers had left Turkey and were heading towards Italy on a yacht. We managed to reach the travellers and got their GPS position. They told us that they had been pushed back by the Greek Coastguard to Turkish waters. Their engine was no longer working and that their boat was taking in water. We immediately alerted the Turkish Coastguard to the distress of the travellers, forwarding all the information we had. The Turkish Coastguard confirmed that they would commence a search and rescue operation. Later, we learned that the travellers had been rescued by the Turkish coastguard.
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