Turkish media reports that Turkish boat was rammed by Greek vessel

Turkish media has reported that a Greek boat rammed a Turkish vessel that was fishing near an uninhabited Greek islet in the northern Aegean Sea.

"Greeks rammed and caused damage to the boat of a Turkish fisherman who was fishing off the coast of Gokceada [Imvros] in the area of Zurafa Island," Yeni Safak, a newspaper close to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the AKP government, said, referring to the islet that Greeks also call Zourafa or Ladoxera.

Zourafa is located about six nautical miles east of the Greek island of Samothraki and ten nautical miles north of the Turkish island of Imvros.

The article quoted the fisherman in question, Ilker Ozdemir: "We were in the Blue Homeland, we were in international waters. They came, they couldn't stand it, they hit us. We are now being towed and they left. Unfortunately, our boat has been hit; we can't move."