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The Grand Turk
Eight dead, 25 missing as migrant boat sinks off western Turkey
2018-10-11
[Al Ahram] Eight people died after a boat filled with migrants colonists sank off the western coast of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
and another 25 were missing, the Ottoman Turkish coasties said on Wednesday.

It was not clear where the boat was headed or where it left from. Hundreds of thousands of migrants colonists crossed the sea channel from Turkey to Greek territory in 2015 before Ankara curbed the flow under a deal it struck with the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
.

The coasties said the boat sank off the coast of Turkey's Izmir province after water began leaking shortly after its departure. There were initially around 35 migrants colonists on the boat in total, the coasties said in a statement.

Search and rescue operations for the missing migrants colonists were continuing, the coasties added.

One helicopter, an aircraft and three boats were carrying out the operations off the coast of Izmir's Karaburun district, it said, adding that gendarme and security forces were also carrying out efforts on the ground.

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