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Hundreds Evacuated Amid Raging Forest Fire In Turkey: Report
Firefighters were battling a strong forest fire in Turkey's Aegean city of Izmir for a third day on Saturday, AFP reporters said, with hundreds more people evacuated overnight.
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Yusra Mardini, Olympian Who Escaped War-Torn Syria By Swimming Aegean Sea
Born into the heart of Syria's Damascus, Yusra Mardini's early years were filled with the echoes of her father's tales of swimming glory. But fate dealt her a cruel hand as civil war ravaged her homeland, tearing apart the fabric of her existence.
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Greece Asked To Launch Probe After Video Shows Migrants Abandoned At Sea
In the video, refugees are shown being driven in a white van to a remote spot on the Aegean island before being forced into a high-speed inflatable boat.
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17 Migrants Dead After Ship Capsizes Off Greece Coast
At least 16 women migrants and one boy died when their vessel sank off the Greek island of Lesbos early on Thursday, in the second maritime disaster involving refugees in the Aegean Sea in under a day.
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50 Missing As Migrant Boat Sinks Off Greece: Report
Up to 50 people are missing after a boat carrying migrants sank off the Greek island of Karpathos in the Aegean Sea, a coastguard official told AFP Wednesday.
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Greek Rescuers Save More Than 100 Migrants In The Aegean
More than 100 migrants were rescued early Sunday off the island of Mykonos in the Aegean Sea and four are missing, the Greek coastguard said.
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"Repeated Provocation": Turkey-Greece Spar Over Airspace
Turkey on Friday accused Greek warplanes of violating its airspace over the Aegean Sea, which Turkish security sources said happened 30 times in 72 hours.
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Greece's First Underwater Museum Opens Ancient World To Dive Tourists
Emerging from the crystal-clear turquoise waters of the Aegean Sea, Hans-Juergen Fercher has just returned from his fourth dive to where mounds of 2,500-year-old wine pots mark the site of an ancient shipwreck -- and Greece's first underwater museum.
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Tornado Throws Cars Into Air, Rips Apart Buildings
A tornado ripped through a port area in Turkey's western coastal province of Izmir overnight, flinging vehicles into the air, damaging buildings, toppling a crane and leaving 16 people injured, Turkish officials said on Friday.
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Aegean Quake Count Rises To 115 As Search Continues In Turkey's Izmir
Search and rescue efforts were concentrated on two buildings in Turkey's western city of Izmir as the death count from Friday's earthquake in the Aegean Sea crept up to 115, disaster authorities said early on Wednesday.
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3-Year-Old Rescued 65 Hours After Deadly Turkey Earthquake
Rescuers pulled two children from the rubble in a town in western Turkey on Monday, nearly three days after a powerful earthquake hit the Aegean, killing 85 people.
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Baby, Toddler Among 7 Dead In Greek Migrant Boat Capsize
A baby and a toddler were among seven people who died Friday when a migrant boat sank in the Aegean Sea, the Greek coastguard said, as rescuers searched for another four people missing.
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In Greece's Aegean Sea, Divers Find "Gulf Of Plastic Corals"
Thousands of plastic bags were pulled from the sea off Greece's Andros island this month by a team of divers and environmentalists who described what they found as a "gulf full of plastic corals."
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Turkey Sentences 40 To Life For Plotting To Kill President Erdogan
A Turkish court on Wednesday handed life sentences to 40 people convicted of plotting to assassinate President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a luxury Aegean hotel during last year's failed coup
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Turkey Sends First Cargo Ship With Aid For Qatar
Turkey on Thursday sent its first ship loaded with aid for its embattled regional ally Qatar which has been hit by sanctions from Gulf powers led by Saudi Arabia, state media said.
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Hundreds Evacuated Amid Raging Forest Fire In Turkey: Report
Firefighters were battling a strong forest fire in Turkey's Aegean city of Izmir for a third day on Saturday, AFP reporters said, with hundreds more people evacuated overnight.
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Yusra Mardini, Olympian Who Escaped War-Torn Syria By Swimming Aegean Sea
Born into the heart of Syria's Damascus, Yusra Mardini's early years were filled with the echoes of her father's tales of swimming glory. But fate dealt her a cruel hand as civil war ravaged her homeland, tearing apart the fabric of her existence.
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Greece Asked To Launch Probe After Video Shows Migrants Abandoned At Sea
In the video, refugees are shown being driven in a white van to a remote spot on the Aegean island before being forced into a high-speed inflatable boat.
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17 Migrants Dead After Ship Capsizes Off Greece Coast
At least 16 women migrants and one boy died when their vessel sank off the Greek island of Lesbos early on Thursday, in the second maritime disaster involving refugees in the Aegean Sea in under a day.
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50 Missing As Migrant Boat Sinks Off Greece: Report
Up to 50 people are missing after a boat carrying migrants sank off the Greek island of Karpathos in the Aegean Sea, a coastguard official told AFP Wednesday.
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Greek Rescuers Save More Than 100 Migrants In The Aegean
More than 100 migrants were rescued early Sunday off the island of Mykonos in the Aegean Sea and four are missing, the Greek coastguard said.
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"Repeated Provocation": Turkey-Greece Spar Over Airspace
Turkey on Friday accused Greek warplanes of violating its airspace over the Aegean Sea, which Turkish security sources said happened 30 times in 72 hours.
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Greece's First Underwater Museum Opens Ancient World To Dive Tourists
Emerging from the crystal-clear turquoise waters of the Aegean Sea, Hans-Juergen Fercher has just returned from his fourth dive to where mounds of 2,500-year-old wine pots mark the site of an ancient shipwreck -- and Greece's first underwater museum.
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Tornado Throws Cars Into Air, Rips Apart Buildings
A tornado ripped through a port area in Turkey's western coastal province of Izmir overnight, flinging vehicles into the air, damaging buildings, toppling a crane and leaving 16 people injured, Turkish officials said on Friday.
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Aegean Quake Count Rises To 115 As Search Continues In Turkey's Izmir
Search and rescue efforts were concentrated on two buildings in Turkey's western city of Izmir as the death count from Friday's earthquake in the Aegean Sea crept up to 115, disaster authorities said early on Wednesday.
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3-Year-Old Rescued 65 Hours After Deadly Turkey Earthquake
Rescuers pulled two children from the rubble in a town in western Turkey on Monday, nearly three days after a powerful earthquake hit the Aegean, killing 85 people.
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Baby, Toddler Among 7 Dead In Greek Migrant Boat Capsize
A baby and a toddler were among seven people who died Friday when a migrant boat sank in the Aegean Sea, the Greek coastguard said, as rescuers searched for another four people missing.
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In Greece's Aegean Sea, Divers Find "Gulf Of Plastic Corals"
Thousands of plastic bags were pulled from the sea off Greece's Andros island this month by a team of divers and environmentalists who described what they found as a "gulf full of plastic corals."
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Turkey Sentences 40 To Life For Plotting To Kill President Erdogan
A Turkish court on Wednesday handed life sentences to 40 people convicted of plotting to assassinate President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a luxury Aegean hotel during last year's failed coup
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Turkey Sends First Cargo Ship With Aid For Qatar
Turkey on Thursday sent its first ship loaded with aid for its embattled regional ally Qatar which has been hit by sanctions from Gulf powers led by Saudi Arabia, state media said.
