{"id":89347,"date":"2020-01-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/9570\/"},"modified":"2020-01-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T21:00:00","slug":"9570","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/9570","title":{"rendered":"Deaths Reported as Migrant Boat Sinks Off Turkish Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Eight people, including three women, have drowned after a boat carrying migrants sank off Turkey&#8217;s Aegean coast, Turkey&#8217;s Ministry of Interior has said.<\/div>\n<div>A ministry statement on Friday said a rubber boat with about 15 people on board sank late on Thursday off the coast of Fethiye, in Turkey&#8217;s southwest.<\/div>\n<div>The coastguard dispatched three boats, a team of divers, a plane and a helicopter to the area as soon as it received word of the incident.<\/div>\n<div>A search-and-rescue mission continued for seven migrants thought to be missing.<\/div>\n<div>There was no information on the nationalities of the migrants who were on the boat.<\/div>\n<div>Turkey is a main crossing point for migrants trying to make their way to Europe to escape violent conflicts or economic hardship.<\/div>\n<div>AGPS has kept record of the death of dozens of Palestinian refugees onboard Europe-bound boats, as they fled war-torn Syria to Turkey, before heading for neighboring Greece and other coastal destinations.<\/div>\n<div>A deal between Turkey and the European Union in 2016 helped stem migration flows, but many asylum-seekers still attempt the dangerous trip across the Aegean Sea to Greek islands.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight people, including three women, have drowned after a boat carrying migrants sank off Turkey&#8217;s Aegean coast, Turkey&#8217;s Ministry of Interior has said. A ministry statement on Friday said a rubber boat with about 15 people on board sank late on Thursday off the coast of Fethiye, in Turkey&#8217;s southwest. The coastguard dispatched three boats, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}