One person died and seven others were missing Saturday after a migrant boat sank in the Aegean Sea off Turkey’s western coast, the Turkish Coast Guard said.
The coast guard said it rescued 37 people alive from a rubber dinghy that took on water before dawn off the town of Dikili in İzmir province.
Dikili sits across from the Greek island of Lesbos, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) away. Lesbos is part of Greece, a member of the European Union.
The coast guard said search and rescue operations were continuing for the seven missing migrants.
Shipwrecks are common on the sea route from Turkey to nearby Greek islands, a main entry point into the European Union for people fleeing conflict, poverty or persecution.
Nearly 1,900 migrants disappeared or were found dead in the Mediterranean in 2025, according to the International Organization for Migration.
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