Five killed after migrant boat hits coast guard vessel off northwest Turkey
In a statement, the governor's office said a high-speed boat carrying 34 migrants and one migrant trafficker hit the coast guard vessel off Ayvalik district's Badavut coast.
Migrants from sub-saharan African countries on a dinghy react as they are towed by a rescue boat during their effort to cross part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey to the island of Lesbos, Greece, February 29, 2020. (photo credit: REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis)ByREUTERS