Of the 25 confirmed dead, five are children.
The Greek coastguard confirmed that a search-and-rescue operation has been ongoing for another 31 other people still reported missing.
Two of the 12 survivors, all men, were arrested on suspicion of being the smugglers that had organized the voyage from
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...'s Izmir.
The survivors, who were found on an uninhabited islet, had told Greek authorities that at least 68 people were on the sailboat.
Rudaw has learned that a significant number of Kurds were on the boat. Their identities have still remain unknown.
At least 27 people drowned in two separate shipwrecks last month, with both setting sails from Turkey to Greece.
Greece is one of the main routes into the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
for refugees and
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried...
the flow was cut off following the arrival of nearly one million people, including Syrian Kurds, in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
after crossing to Greek islands close to Turkey in 2015.
Tens of thousands of mostly young Kurds left the Kurdistan Region for Europe last year in search of a better life, using people’s smuggling routes. A number of these
Dozens of mourning families received the bodies of their loved ones in Erbil in February. Their repatriation followed a directive issued by Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani.
The bodies of 16