Turkish boat disaster reveals new route for migrants - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Thomas Seibert

Thomas Seibert

Nov 6, 2014

Rescuers retrieve a boat that sank off the Black Sea village of Garipce near Istanbul November 3, 2014. Rescuers pulled 24 dead bodies from the sea at the mouth of Istanbul's Bosphorus strait on Monday and rescued seven people after the boat carrying a group of migrants sank, the Turkish Coastguard Command said. Seven coastguard vessels and a helicopter were continuing search operations in the Black Sea, some 3 miles (5 km) north of the Bosphorus, the coastguard said in a statement. Media reports said some — Rescuers retrieve a boat that sank off the Black Sea village of Garipce, near Istanbul, Nov. 3, 2014. — REUTERS/Osman Orsal

Activists from Syria say more than people aboard the trawler were from the country's south, mainly Daraa province

'No future': Egyptians risk lives at sea to reach Europe

Agence France-Presse

TOPSHOT - Migrants walk in the sea to board a smuggler's boat in an attempt to cross the English Channel, on the beach of Gravelines, near Dunkirk, northern France on April 26, 2024. Five migrants, including a seven-year-old girl, died on April 23, 2024 trying to cross the Channel from France to Britain, local authorities said, just hours after Britain passed a controversial bill to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. (Photo by Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP) (Photo by SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP via Getty Images)

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Hanna Davis

In Amman, reporting on refugees

migrants in Tunisia

Tunisia's migrants face new roadblock in popular smuggling route to Europe

Stephen Quillen

Stephen Quillen

An Algerian flag is displayed on a small boat used by migrants to cross The Alboran Sea, in an open-air warehouse in Almeria, southeast Spain, on October 15, 2021. - At least 309 migrants, 13 of them minors, have died in the western Mediterranean since the start of the year, figures from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) show. The number of Algerians arriving on the coast of southeastern Spain or the Balearic Isles has soared in recent months. A confidential document compiled by the Spanish

Algeria disbands migrant smuggling network to Europe, arrests nine Syrians

Beatrice Farhat

Beatrice Farhat

In Beirut, reporting on regional news, culture, conflict