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Istanbul: One person died and seven others were missing Saturday after a migrant boat sank in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey, the Turkish coast guard said.
Thirty-seven passengers on a rubber dinghy which took on water before dawn off the western city of Dikili, north of Izmir, were rescued alive, the coast guard stated.
Dikili, a small seaside resort, faces the Greek island of Lesbos, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) away.
“Search operations … are continuing to find the seven missing irregular migrants,” the coast guard said.
Shipwrecks are common for perilous crossings to the Greek islands, which are a gateway to the European Union.
Nearly 1,900 migrants either disappeared or were found drowned in the Mediterranean in 2025, according to the International Organization for Migration.